Apple's iBooks Author, available for, makes it easy for you to write your bestselling novel, textbook, cook book, or story book, complete with illustrations, cover art, and even interactive content. You can even sell your digital books right in Apple's!

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Write your book Of course, there is no reason to get excited about winning the Nobel Prize for Literature until you've actually written a book. If you've already got the backbone of your content written thanks to a little help from, you can use the iBooks Author app for Mac or another EPUB creator tool, like Pages. Keep in mind that your book has to be published as either a.ibooks or.epub file. If you don't know how to create a book in EPUB or iBooks format, Apple has partnered with a number of that can help you correctly format your book and make sure it meets the Book Store requirements. Sign up with iTunes Connect So, you've already got a book ready to publish. Now it's time to get registered as a Book Store author so you can start selling. You'll need to enable your Apple ID for iTunes Connect first.

Your Apple ID needs to be verified and you must have a valid credit card on file. (Apple is in the midst of re-branding iTunes Connect as. We'll go with the iTunes Connect nomenclature for now.) You can use the same Apple ID that you use to purchase content in the App Store or iTunes, but you can't use the same Apple ID that you use to sell other types of content in iTunes (like apps, music, or movies). So, if you are already an app developer selling in iTunes, you'll need to create a new iTunes Connect account with a different Apple ID. Once you have enabled iTunes Connect with your Apple ID, you will need to sign a Book Store agreement. There are two different types of agreements: Free Books and Paid Books The former is the agreement you want if you never intend to sell content in the Book Store and will only give it away.

If you think there will ever be a chance that you might want to sell books in the Book Store, you might as well select the Paid Books agreement. If you are selling books on behalf of a company located anywhere in the world, or you are a U.S. Individual, you must provide Apple with a U.S. Tax ID (such as an SSN, ITIN, or EIN) on the Paid Books Agreement Information page. Get the iTunes Producer app on your Mac Once you've written your book and formatted it correctly, are registered with iTunes Connect, and have signed the requisite agreements, you're ready to submit your ebook to Apple Books. That's where the iTunes Producer app comes in. It is a resource tool for publishing.

It's different from iBooks Author. You can get iTunes Producer from the Resources and Help section of iTunes Connect. It is only compatible with the Mac. If you don't have a Mac, you can get one of those to publish your book for you. ITunes Producer will help you build your Book Store summary page, complete with samples, cover art, category, title, author name, and price tag. You can also select which countries your book is available in.

Sell your books in the Book Store After you've uploaded your content, created your summary page and included details, cover art, and a sample, you can submit your ebook for publication. While in the iTunes Producer app, you'll hit the Submit button to send it to Apple Books for processing. After the book is authenticated, you'll be able to check the status of your book in iTunes Connect. If you ever want to change the price of your book, or even remove it from the Book Store completely, you can do so from your My Books dashboard. Help is a click away If you're new to this game, Apple provides lots of.

Good luck and happy selling!

A method without the terminal I tried the method outlined here and for some reason beyond my luddite comprehension of software it did not work for me. Also, perhaps other users are (just as I) more comfortable with cut&past action in Finder, rather than the terminal. Now, please forgive me if I repost what I wrote in another thread (and yes, I will even reuse that sorry pun), but I think this thread is more befitting to gather some workarounds: It may surprise you to learn that the leopard can indeed change his shorts. That means you can mask your system to tell the app store it is running 10.7.2 which allows you to install the app (works for other things too), then restoring your system settings to their original state and telling the app to accept running on SL, again with just a quick edit of a file. So far everything seems to work out fine on my system, maybe an indication that Apple indeed wants to incentivize you to upgrade by means of an artificial barrier that on the other hand can easily be circumvented. Make of that what you will. Anyway, getting around that barrier is not news on MacRumors, as I found this link here in the first place: I fiddled around with the instructions and found that my system settings obviously differ (maybe they used an admin account in the link above?) so that the process for me is a slight variation.

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But I also learned that messing up your camouflage and getting shut out by the app detecting your meddling can be remedied simply by trashing the app and starting the process anew. Doing it my way really only took me about four minutes, download included, so if you desperately want a piece of the action you may want to give the sneakaround a try.