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At reedsy, our goal has always been to help authors through every stage of. How can you promote apple books on the apple ibooks store. A screen will appear on your computer that looks similar to when an application downloads. Apparently some indie authors have achieved 80% of their sales via ibooks after giving early exclusivity to apple. Things to remember for uploading books on apple ibooks. You can customize your book during the publishing process.
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How to selfpublish your book through amazon forbes. Great so youve created a fantastic book, and youre ready to sell it. Publish and sell books with ibooks author use ibooks author to create and submit books toapple booksor distribute anywhere on the web. To get started, take a look at apples faq about submission to the ibooks store.
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Hello, i am a budding author and want to publish to ibooks. Some authors even make more money from ibooks than they do from amazon. If your itunes connect account has more than one seller. This is simply ibooks sending your information off to their website and making sure that they have all the information they need.
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