Publish your book with Pages

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

With Pages, you can create a volume, then publish it direct to the shop in Apple tree Books. You can customize your book during the publishing procedure: add a cover, gear up your toll or offer it for complimentary, add tags to specify age groups or subjects, fix a pre-order, customize availability by date and country or region, and more. You tin also update an already submitted volume.

Here's what y'all need

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

  • A Mac with macOS High Sierra and Pages 7.3 or later
  • An iPhone or iPad with iOS eleven or later, or an iPad with iPadOS and Pages 4.iii or later on
  • An iTunes Connect business relationship for Apple tree Books

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

  • Safari 9.1.iii or later, or Google Chrome for your Mac
  • Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome for your Windows PC
  • An iTunes Connect account for Apple Books

Set to publish your book

Here are some things you lot should practice earlier you commencement the process of publishing your book:

  • Use paragraph styles in your Pages document, then your book formats correctly when published.
  • Salve your book in the Pages folder in iCloud Drive. If you're not using iCloud Bulldoze, set iCloud on all of your devices and turn on iCloud Bulldoze.
  • Become your cover image set* or program to use the commencement page every bit the encompass. If y'all plan to publish with Pages on an iPhone or iPad, salvage the image in iCloud Bulldoze.
  • If your book contains HEVC videos, convert the videos before yous publish.
  • Review the items in the listing on the Submit Your Ebook webpage.

* A cover prototype must be in PNG or JPEG format, and must be at to the lowest degree 1400 pixels on its shortest side.

Publish your book

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

Open your certificate in Pages

  1. Open the Pages document that you want to publish as a book.
  2. On iPad or iPhone, tap the More push, then tap Publish to Apple Books.
    On Mac, choose File > Publish to Apple Books.
    Online at iCloud.com, click the Tools button, then choose Publish to Apple Books.
  3. Tap or click Continue, then sign in to iTunes Connect. If you've never signed in, on Mac click Create iTunes Connect Business relationship. On an iPad, iPhone, or online at iCloud.com, sign up for an business relationship.
  4. Tap or click Continue. Beyond this footstep, any changes y'all make to the Pages certificate won't appear in the published book. If you demand to stop the publishing menstruation and make changes to the Pages document, just 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-up menu, then choose a seller. All those listed in your iTunes Connect account appear in the menu—choose any as the seller.
  2. If yous're publishing this book for the first time, select "This is a new volume." Y'all can too update a previously submitted book.
  3. Click Continue.

Provide book information

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

  • If your Pages document is a word-processing document, choose a layout for your volume. Choose Reflowable for a book that has by and large text, like a novel. In a Reflowable layout, content reflows to accommodate dissimilar devices and orientations, and readers tin conform the font size. Cull Fixed for image-heavy or multi-column documents.
  • To brandish 2-folio spreads in a fixed layout volume, choose Book Spread > Two Pages.
  • To add a subtitle or a series name, in the Title section click the Add push. If you're non using a subtitle or series name, click the Remove button to remove the field.
  • To add together additional roles such equally Editor, Illustrated by, Narrated by, and more, tap or click the Add push in the Author department, click the Author pop-upward bill of fare, choose a office, then enter a proper noun.
  • To help readers find your volume, cull a subject area category that all-time describes the content of your volume. You tin can add additional categories, but Apple Books uses the outset three categories you chose.
  • If your volume is for minors, fix an involvement historic period. Or tap or click the Interest Historic period pop-up menu and cull ane of the school grade options:
    • To set a minimum grade, set the first option only.
    • To set a maximum form, set the second option only.
    • To ready a form range, set both options.
    • To set a specific grade, set up both options to the same grade.
  • If your book is appropriate for adults only or is extremely violent, click the Contains Explicit Content popular-up menu and choose Aye.
  • To set up upward a pre-order, tap or click the Pre-Society pop-upward carte, and so choose Yes. To upload your book now, click the Upload Volume pop-up menu and choose Yes. After you upload your book, you'll add pricing, territory information, and pre-order details in iTunes Connect.*

When y'all're ready, click Proceed. If errors appear, enter the required information, and so click Continue again.

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

Preview and upload your book

Later you enter your volume information and click Go on, 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 calculator.

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

Finalize your submission

After your book successfully uploads to Apple Books, click Go to iTunes Connect. In iTunes Connect, add together pricing and territory data. If you prepare a pre-social club, add pre-club details.

While Apple Books reviews your submission, you'll receive status updates via email. You tin can likewise bank check your book's review status at whatsoever fourth dimension in the My Books department of your iTunes Connect account.

Update a previously submitted volume

Open the certificate 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'south new" text that describes what's changed in the new version—this will announced with your book in the Book Shop.

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

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