Anyone self-pub in iBookstore directly?

[davidhburton]

I decided to bypass Smashwords and just uploaded mine directly. I was wondering how long it will sit in "pending". Anyone else do this?

 

[MJA Ware]

I've been pending for about a month. -No reply yet.

 

[Valmore Daniels]

Unfortunately, no. But I've been thinking about it.

 

[Joseph Mitchell]

I would really like to, but from what I've read, you can only submit from an apple computer, and I don't own one yet.

 

[DebraLMartin]

I haven't tried it yet because I'm already submitting through Smashwords and have used their ISBN. If I opt out of Smashwords, can I still upload directly and continue to use their ISBN noting them as the publisher?

Deb

 

[marlahrd]

Self-published to iBookstore

Hi, It took about 5 days for my self-published book to be up on iBookstore.

Now my question is, how do you follow the ranking?

Marla Heller, The DASH Diet Action Plan

 

[DArenson]

Hmmm... my novel ("Firefly Island") was pending for only a few days. I hope they approve your book soon!

 

[donna.callea]

I went the smashwords route. What are the advantages of bypassing SW? Aside from not sharing royalties?

 

[Biggysmallz]

One has to have a US Tax ID to be able to use Apple iBook publishing.
That sucks. They don't cater for people outside of the US?

 

[davidhburton]

Looks like it's live now. Thanks everyone!!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-second-coming/id383258230?mt=11

 

[CarlWebster]

book link

David,

How did you get the link to your book in the iBookstore?

 

[davidhburton]

I found a how-to on Smashwords that gives you insight on how to come up with the link.

 

[OnTheGo]

Other than having to buy your own ISBN and having a Mac, I've decided to use LuLu. It only took 3 days for 3 of my ePub books to show up on the iBookstore! A few of them took two weeks but those got caught in a LuLu system update cycle - they were on hold while releasing new code.

 

[carpenter]

How did you format your book to submit to iBookstore? Did you have to use a book designer or could you just put it into Word for Mac? I'm trying to decide between iBookstore and Amazon KDP for a series of book I have in mind. They are non-fiction and I have published with hardcover publishers previously. This time, I don't anticipate anything but an ebook. I will also use my own cover design and I do have a tax ID number, so no problem. Plus, I do write on an Air, but I don't have 1MB/sec uploads on my DSL connection.

Any advice from anyone would be appreciated.

 

[carpenter]

Just one question. What helped you to make the decision to go with LuLu instead of someone like Smashwords? I'm considering which way to go now.