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I don't know how many of you have had this problem recently (since Mid-March) but I have been trying to upload a validated epub file to ibookstore for sale. After more than 25 attempts at uploading, it still says "removed from sale." I have contacted apple support team but they have not been of much use.

The funny thing is that I have successfully uploaded 36 epubs before and have no problem doing that. I have now tried epubmaker, sigil, calibre but to no avail. (I am not sure how the outputed file from calibre can be uploaded into ibookstore.. I keep on getting on Error 9000 or something). I am at a total loss here. I don't want to go through aggregators as they are very expensive for my taste. I have another 50 ebooks to upload but I am afraid to start until I get this resolved.

I have used Apple's Epub example epub template too and that has resulted in the same "removed from sale" message. I tried changing the cover images. No help there.

Maybe someone on this forum has some insight. I don't have pages software so I can't use that method to convert into epubs. I have tried various approaches in Sigil to edit the epub file but am not getting anywhere.

Can someone please help remove this d***d curse?
thanks
Kash