05-16-2011, 07:34 PM | #1 |
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ibooks: 'Removed from sale' when uploading children's books
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I have tried uploading my children's books to ibookstore several times, all to no avail. It keeps saying "removed from sale." Has anyone had that problem lately? I am willing to seek help from an aggregator if they would just edit my epubs to make it acceptable by Apple. Their terms require me to share royalties etc which I am not willing to do. I just want someone to edit my epubs. BTW, they all pass validation. Any suggestions or recommendations for a freelancer or an aggregator? I know Apple says that one can get an aggregator to edit the epub for as low as $ 5 an epub. Now the questions is: who and where are they? Thanks for any help you can give me. I have been trying to upload this book for over a month, and support at ibookstoer is virtually non-existent. Thanks |
05-16-2011, 08:56 PM | #2 |
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Are there ads for other books inside the book with prices on them or links to download them? I believe these are the principle reasons a book will be removed from the site.
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No there are no ads. On the last page is a listing of other books in the series, but they are not "hot linked" or have urls.
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I have tried over 90 times and am at a loss...The strange fact is that the English version of that book was accepted without any problems but the French version is giving problems!
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05-18-2011, 01:09 AM | #8 |
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That is interesting. There is likely some French word that is similar to an English word they don't like I would guess. I have no clue how to proceed based on this new information. I take it you can't get any response from Apple.
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I'd like to see Apple produce an aggregator that will edit an epub for $5.00 and not charge a percentage of sales. That's a laughable claim.
If your children's books are a) fixed-format, image-only (so, for example, you had a bunch of jpegs and put them one after another in an epub), Apple will reject it; b) if you have the WORD Kindle or Nook in your book, Apple will reject it; c) if you have a bookcredit line, or a link to a publisher or your own author page, Apple will reject it...OR, here's my favorite: if Apple just does not think your book is "good enough," or high-quality enough for its iBookstore--in other words, they just don't LIKE it, they'll reject it, time after time after time, until they wear you down. I'm not saying that's what is going on with you; but I have a client who persists in doing his own cover design, and at the end of the day, the books look crappy. Apple came up with a *list* of ridiculous excuses, and I didn't have the heart to tell him that his book is just not good enough-LOOKING, that his table images weren't "cool" enough and his cover just didn't cut it in Apple's iBookstore...so I told him to blow off the Aggregator (who was getting $50/pop intake fee plus 5% of sales) and just sell his epubs on Nook and Goog. I realize that with kids' books it's a whole other thing...but I have stopped taking children's books precisely because they aren't selling well enough, even on iBooks, to warrant what I have to charge to make them to Apple's new fixed-layout specifications. I know no childrens' book author wants to hear that...but Apple is such a tiny, tiny, TINY percentage of ebook sales that I don't feel right taking childrens' books authors' money. I can, if you want to PM me, refer you to someone who does do fixed-layout children's books by preference; but I do not know what he charges. Hitch |
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