Publish your book with Pages

Publish your book direct to Apple Books from Pages on your iPad, iPhone, iPod bear on, 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 together a cover, set your price or offer it for gratis, add tags to specify age groups or subjects, set up a pre-society, customize availability by date and country or region, and more. You can also update an already submitted book.

Here's what you need

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

  • A Mac with macOS High Sierra and Pages 7.3 or later
  • An iPhone or iPad with iOS 11 or subsequently, or an iPad with iPadOS and Pages four.3 or later
  • An iTunes Connect account for Apple Books

For Pages online at iCloud.com, hither'due south what you demand:

  • Safari 9.ane.iii or later on, 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 do before you start the process of publishing your book:

  • Apply paragraph styles in your Pages document, so your book formats correctly when published.
  • Save your book in the Pages binder in iCloud Drive. If you're not using iCloud Drive, set up up iCloud on all of your devices and turn on iCloud Drive.
  • Become your cover image set up* or program to use the first folio as the embrace. If you lot plan to publish with Pages on an iPhone or iPad, save the image in iCloud Drive.
  • If your book contains HEVC videos, convert the videos before you publish.
  • Review the items in the listing on the Submit Your Ebook webpage.

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

Publish your book

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

Open your document in Pages

  1. Open the Pages certificate that yous want to publish every bit a volume.
  2. On iPad or iPhone, tap the More button, then tap Publish to Apple Books.
    On Mac, choose File > Publish to Apple tree Books.
    Online at iCloud.com, click the Tools push, and so choose Publish to Apple tree Books.
  3. Tap or click Continue, so sign in to iTunes Connect. If you'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 Continue. Beyond this step, any changes you brand to the Pages document won't appear in the published book. If you demand to stop the publishing flow and make changes to the Pages document, just close the publishing window.

Provide seller and version information

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

  1. If your iTunes Connect account has more than i seller, tap or click the Seller popular-upwardly carte, then choose a seller. All those listed in your iTunes Connect business relationship 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 book." Yous tin can also update a previously submitted book.
  3. Click Continue.

Provide book data

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

  • If your Pages certificate is a discussion-processing document, choose a layout for your book. Choose Reflowable for a book that has generally text, like a novel. In a Reflowable layout, content reflows to accommodate different devices and orientations, and readers can adjust the font size. Choose Fixed for paradigm-heavy or multi-cavalcade documents.
  • To display ii-page spreads in a stock-still layout book, choose Book Spread > Two Pages.
  • To add a subtitle or a series proper noun, in the Title department click the Add together button. If y'all're non using a subtitle or series proper noun, click the Remove push to remove the field.
  • To add boosted roles such as Editor, Illustrated by, Narrated by, and more, tap or click the Add together push in the Writer department, click the Author pop-up menu, choose a role, so enter a proper name.
  • To help readers find your book, choose a subject category that best describes the content of your book. You can add together additional categories, only Apple Books uses the outset three categories you chose.
  • If your book is for minors, set up an involvement age. Or tap or click the Involvement Age popular-up card and choose one of the schoolhouse grade options:
    • To prepare a minimum grade, set the first selection only.
    • To set a maximum grade, set up the 2nd option only.
    • To prepare a grade range, set both options.
    • To set up a specific grade, prepare both options to the aforementioned grade.
  • If your book is appropriate for adults only or is extremely vehement, click the Contains Explicit Content pop-up menu and choose Yes.
  • To gear up a pre-order, tap or click the Pre-Gild popular-upward menu, then choose Yes. To upload your book now, click the Upload Book pop-upward menu and choose Yes. After you upload your volume, you lot'll add together pricing, territory information, and pre-lodge details in iTunes Connect.*

When you lot're ready, click Proceed. If errors announced, enter the required information, then click Continue over again.

* Your book won't be available in the Volume Shop until yous add this information in iTunes Connect subsequently uploading your book.

Preview and upload your book

After yous enter your volume information and click Go along, 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 figurer.

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

Finalize your submission

After your book successfully uploads to Apple Books, click Become to iTunes Connect. In iTunes Connect, add pricing and territory data. If y'all set upward a pre-order, add together pre-club details.

While Apple Books reviews your submission, you'll receive status updates via email. You tin also check your volume's review status at whatever fourth dimension in the My Books section of your iTunes Connect business relationship.

Update a previously submitted book

Open up the document and choose Publish to Apple Books. In the Seller screen, choose the update selection. If your previously published book had a version number, create a new version number for the volume. Add "what'southward new" text that describes what'south inverse in the new version—this will appear with your book in the Book Shop.

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

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