Publish your volume with Pages

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

With Pages, yous can create a book, then publish it directly to the store in Apple Books. You tin customize your volume during the publishing process: add together a embrace, set your toll or offer it for free, add tags to specify age groups or subjects, set up a pre-order, customize availability by date and country or region, and more. You tin also update an already submitted book.

Here's what y'all need

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

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

For Pages online at iCloud.com, here's what you demand:

  • Safari 9.one.3 or later on, or Google Chrome for your Mac
  • Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome for your Windows PC
  • An iTunes Connect business relationship for Apple Books

Prepare to publish your book

Before y'all publish your book, bank check this listing to make sure your book is ready to be published.

  • Use paragraph styles in your Pages certificate, so your volume formats correctly when published.
  • Save your book in the Pages folder in iCloud Drive. If you lot're not using iCloud Drive, set iCloud on all of your devices and turn on iCloud Drive.
  • Get your cover image ready* or program to employ the first folio as the encompass. If you plan to publish with Pages on an iPhone or iPad, salve the epitome in iCloud Drive.
  • To submit your volume successfully, review the submission checklist in the Apple tree Books Publisher User Guide before you try to publish.
  • If your book contains HEVC videos, convert the videos before you publish.

* A cover epitome 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 document in Pages, provide seller and version information, enter book information, preview and upload your book, and then finalize your submission.

Open up your certificate in Pages

  1. Open the Pages document that y'all desire to publish every bit a volume.
  2. On iPad or iPhone, tap the More than push button, and so tap Publish to Apple Books.
    On Mac, choose File > Publish to Apple Books.
    Online at iCloud.com, click the Tools push, and then choose Publish to Apple Books.
  3. Tap or click Proceed, then 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 business relationship.
  4. Tap or click Continue. Across this footstep, any changes y'all make to the Pages document won't announced in the published book. If y'all need to end the publishing period and make changes to the Pages document, just shut 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 than one seller, tap or click the Seller pop-up bill of fare, so choose a seller. All those listed in your iTunes Connect account appear in the bill of fare—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 too update a previously submitted book.
  3. Click Continue.

Provide book information

After you provide seller and version information, you can choose a layout blazon for your book and enter other information about your book. Not every field is required, just many fields can aid readers discover your book in the Book Store. Hither are some tips about the options on this page:

  • If your Pages document is a word-processing document, cull 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 arrange the font size. Choose Stock-still for paradigm-heavy or multi-column documents.
  • To brandish 2-page spreads in a fixed layout book, choose Book Spread > Two Pages.
  • To add a subtitle or a series proper name, in the Title section click the Add together button. If you lot're not using a subtitle or series name, click the Remove button to remove the field.
  • To add additional roles such as Editor, Illustrated past, Narrated past, and more, tap or click the Add button in the Author department, click the Author pop-upwards bill of fare, choose a function, and then enter a name.
  • To assist readers find your book, choose a subject category that best describes the content of your volume. Yous can add boosted categories, but Apple Books uses the showtime three categories you lot chose.
  • If your book is for minors, set an interest age. Or tap or click the Interest Age pop-up carte and choose one of the school grade options:
    • To set a minimum grade, set up the first option simply.
    • To fix a maximum grade, set the second pick merely.
    • To set up a grade range, set both options.
    • To ready a specific grade, set both options to the aforementioned grade.
  • If your book is appropriate for adults only or is extremely tearing, click the Contains Explicit Content pop-up card and choose Aye.
  • To set upwardly a pre-order, tap or click the Pre-Order popular-up bill of fare, then choose Yes. To upload your volume now, click the Upload Book popular-up carte and choose Yeah. After you lot upload your book, you lot'll add pricing, territory information, and pre-order details in iTunes Connect.*

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

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

Preview and upload your volume

Subsequently you enter your book information and click Go on, yous tin preview the book and sample EPUB files. The preview EPUB files open up in the Books app.

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

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

Finalize your submission

After your book successfully uploads to Apple tree Books, click Go to iTunes Connect. In iTunes Connect, add together pricing and territory data. If yous gear up up a pre-order, add together pre-lodge details.

While Apple Books reviews your submission, y'all'll receive status updates via e-mail. You can too bank check your book'southward review status at any fourth dimension in the My Books section of your iTunes Connect business relationship.

Update a previously submitted volume

Open the document and cull Publish to Apple tree 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's new" text that describes what'due south changed in the new version—this will appear with your book in the Book Shop.

In the other publishing windows, nigh data volition exist pre-filled, though you can alter most of the metadata or other options. For case, you can specify a new page range for your sample, add a new category for your book, and more than.

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