Publish your book with Pages

Publish your book directly to Apple Books from Pages on your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, or online at iCloud.com.

With Pages, you can create a book, then publish information technology directly to the shop in Apple tree Books. You can customize your book during the publishing process: add together a comprehend, set your price or offer information technology for gratuitous, add together tags to specify historic period groups or subjects, set up a pre-social club, customize availability by engagement and country or region, and more than. Y'all can as well update an already submitted volume.

Here's what you need

 For Pages on your Apple tree device, hither'south what you need:

  • A Mac with macOS Loftier Sierra and Pages seven.iii or afterward
  • An iPhone or iPad with iOS eleven or after, or an iPad with iPadOS and Pages 4.three or subsequently
  • An iTunes Connect business relationship for Apple Books

For Pages online at iCloud.com, here's what y'all need:

  • Safari 9.1.3 or afterwards, or Google Chrome for your Mac
  • Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome for your Windows PC
  • An iTunes Connect account for Apple Books

Prepare to publish your book

Here are some things you should practice earlier y'all commencement the process of publishing your book:

  • Use paragraph styles in your Pages document, so your book formats correctly when published.
  • Salve your book in the Pages binder in iCloud Drive. If yous're not using iCloud Drive, set upward iCloud on all of your devices and plow on iCloud Drive.
  • Get your encompass paradigm prepare* or plan to use the offset page as the cover. If you plan to publish with Pages on an iPhone or iPad, save the paradigm in iCloud Drive.
  • If your book contains HEVC videos, catechumen the videos before you publish.
  • Review the items in the list on the Submit Your Ebook webpage.

* A comprehend image must be in PNG or JPEG format, and must be at least 1400 pixels on its shortest side.

Publish your book

To publish your volume, open your document in Pages, provide seller and version information, enter book information, preview and upload your book, then finalize your submission.

Open your document in Pages

  1. Open the Pages document that yous want to publish as a book.
  2. On iPad or iPhone, tap the More push, and so tap Publish to Apple Books.
    On Mac, cull File > Publish to Apple tree Books.
    Online at iCloud.com, click the Tools button, and then choose Publish to Apple tree Books.
  3. Tap or click Keep, then sign in to iTunes Connect. If y'all've never signed in, on Mac click Create iTunes Connect Business relationship. On an iPad, iPhone, or online at iCloud.com, sign upward for an account.
  4. Tap or click Continue. Beyond this pace, whatever changes you make to the Pages document won't announced in the published book. If you need to stop the publishing flow and make changes to the Pages certificate, merely shut the publishing window.

Provide seller and version information

Next, cull the seller of the book and the version:

  1. If your iTunes Connect business relationship has more than one seller, tap or click the Seller popular-upward menu, then choose a seller. All those listed in your iTunes Connect account appear in the menu—choose any equally the seller.
  2. If you're publishing this volume for the first time, select "This is a new volume." You tin also update a previously submitted book.
  3. Click Go on.

Provide volume information

After you provide seller and version information, you can choose a layout type for your book and enter other information near your volume. Not every field is required, but many fields can help readers find your volume in the Book Shop. Here are some tips about the options on this page:

  • If your Pages document is a word-processing certificate, choose a layout for your volume. Choose Reflowable for a volume that has more often than not text, like a novel. In a Reflowable layout, content reflows to adapt different devices and orientations, and readers can adjust the font size. Choose Fixed for image-heavy or multi-column documents.
  • To brandish two-page spreads in a fixed layout volume, cull Book Spread > 2 Pages.
  • To add together a subtitle or a serial proper name, in the Title section click the Add push button. If you lot're not using a subtitle or series proper name, click the Remove button to remove the field.
  • To add boosted roles such equally Editor, Illustrated by, Narrated by, and more, tap or click the Add button in the Writer section, click the Author pop-upwards menu, cull a role, so enter a name.
  • To assist readers find your book, choose a subject category that best describes the content of your book. Y'all tin add additional categories, but Apple Books uses the beginning iii categories you chose.
  • If your book is for minors, ready an interest age. Or tap or click the Interest Age pop-upwardly menu and cull one of the school grade options:
    • To prepare a minimum grade, set the first option only.
    • To set a maximum class, set the second option only.
    • To fix a grade range, set both options.
    • To set a specific grade, set both options to the same course.
  • If your book is appropriate for adults simply or is extremely violent, click the Contains Explicit Content pop-upwards bill of fare and choose Yeah.
  • To set up a pre-order, tap or click the Pre-Social club popular-upward bill of fare, and then choose Yes. To upload your book at present, click the Upload Book pop-up menu and cull Yes. After you upload your volume, you'll add together pricing, territory information, and pre-order details in iTunes Connect.*

When you're set, click Continue. If errors appear, enter the required information, then click Continue again.

* Your book won't be bachelor in the Book Store until you lot add this information in iTunes Connect after uploading your book.

Preview and upload your book

After yous enter your book information and click Continue, you can preview the book and sample EPUB files. The preview EPUB files open in the Books app.

If you're publishing from Pages online at iCloud.com, the files download to the default download location on your computer.

When you're satisfied with your sample, click Upload.

Finalize your submission

Later your book successfully uploads to Apple Books, click Become to iTunes Connect. In iTunes Connect, add pricing and territory information. If y'all gear up a pre-order, add pre-lodge details.

While Apple tree Books reviews your submission, yous'll receive status updates via email. You tin also check your volume'due south review condition at whatever fourth dimension in the My Books section of your iTunes Connect account.

Update a previously submitted book

Open the document and choose Publish to Apple tree Books. In the Seller screen, cull the update option. If your previously published book had a version number, create a new version number for the volume. Add "what'due south new" text that describes what's changed in the new version—this volition appear with your book in the Book Store.

In the other publishing windows, near information will exist pre-filled, though yous can change about of the metadata or other options. For example, you can specify a new page range for your sample, add a new category for your book, and more.

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