Publish your volume with Pages

Publish your volume 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 it directly to the store in Apple Books. You can customize your book during the publishing process: add a cover, prepare your price or offer it for gratuitous, add tags to specify age groups or subjects, prepare a pre-guild, customize availability past date and country or region, and more. You can as well update an already submitted book.

Here's what y'all need

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

  • A Mac with macOS High Sierra and Pages 7.3 or afterwards
  • An iPhone or iPad with iOS 11 or subsequently, or an iPad with iPadOS and Pages 4.3 or later
  • An iTunes Connect account for Apple Books

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

  • Safari ix.ane.3 or subsequently, or Google Chrome for your Mac
  • Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome for your Windows PC
  • An iTunes Connect account for Apple Books

Ready to publish your volume

Here are some things you should practise before yous get-go the process of publishing your book:

  • Apply paragraph styles in your Pages certificate, and then your book formats correctly when published.
  • Save your volume in the Pages folder in iCloud Drive. If you're not using iCloud Drive, gear up up iCloud on all of your devices and turn on iCloud Drive.
  • Become your comprehend image set* or plan to utilise the beginning page as the cover. If you program to publish with Pages on an iPhone or iPad, save the image in iCloud Drive.
  • If your volume contains HEVC videos, convert the videos before you publish.
  • Review the items in the list on the Submit Your Ebook webpage.

* A embrace 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 book, open your document in Pages, provide seller and version information, enter book information, preview and upload your book, so finalize your submission.

Open your document in Pages

  1. Open the Pages document that you want to publish as a volume.
  2. On iPad or iPhone, tap the More button, then tap Publish to Apple Books.
    On Mac, choose File > Publish to Apple Books.
    Online at iCloud.com, click the Tools button, and then choose Publish to Apple Books.
  3. Tap or click Continue, then sign in to iTunes Connect. If yous've never signed in, on Mac click Create iTunes Connect Account. On an iPad, iPhone, or online at iCloud.com, sign up for an account.
  4. Tap or click Keep. Beyond this step, whatsoever changes you make to the Pages document won't appear in the published book. If you need to stop the publishing period and make changes to the Pages document, simply close the publishing window.

Provide seller and version information

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

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

Provide book data

Afterwards yous provide seller and version information, y'all tin choose a layout type for your book and enter other data about your book. Non every field is required, only many fields can assistance readers find your book in the Book Store. Here are some tips about the options on this page:

  • If your Pages document is a word-processing document, choose a layout for your book. Choose Reflowable for a book that has mostly text, similar a novel. In a Reflowable layout, content reflows to accommodate different devices and orientations, and readers can adjust the font size. Choose Fixed for image-heavy or multi-column documents.
  • To display two-page spreads in a stock-still layout book, choose Book Spread > Two Pages.
  • To add a subtitle or a series name, in the Title department click the Add push. If you lot're not using a subtitle or series proper noun, click the Remove button to remove the field.
  • To add additional roles such every bit Editor, Illustrated past, Narrated by, and more, tap or click the Add button in the Author section, click the Writer pop-up carte, cull a role, then enter a proper name.
  • To help readers discover your volume, choose a subject area category that best describes the content of your book. Yous tin add together additional categories, but Apple Books uses the first three categories you chose.
  • If your volume is for minors, set up an interest age. Or tap or click the Interest Age pop-upwardly card and choose i of the school grade options:
    • To set up a minimum class, set the first option only.
    • To fix a maximum form, set the second selection but.
    • To set up a course range, set both options.
    • To set up a specific grade, set both options to the aforementioned form.
  • If your book is appropriate for adults just or is extremely trigger-happy, click the Contains Explicit Content pop-up menu and choose Yes.
  • To ready a pre-order, tap or click the Pre-Gild pop-upwards bill of fare, then choose Aye. To upload your book now, click the Upload Book pop-up menu and choose Yes. After you lot upload your book, you lot'll add together pricing, territory information, and pre-society details in iTunes Connect.*

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

* Your book won't be available in the Book Shop until you add together this information in iTunes Connect after uploading your book.

Preview and upload your book

After you enter your book information and click Continue, y'all 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 yous're satisfied with your sample, click Upload.

Finalize your submission

Afterwards your volume successfully uploads to Apple Books, click Go to iTunes Connect. In iTunes Connect, add together pricing and territory information. If you set upwards a pre-order, add pre-lodge details.

While Apple Books reviews your submission, you'll receive status updates via email. You can also check your book'due south review status at whatever time in the My Books section of your iTunes Connect account.

Update a previously submitted book

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

In the other publishing windows, most information will be pre-filled, though you can change nearly of the metadata or other options. For example, y'all can specify a new page range for your sample, add together a new category for your volume, and more than.

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