Pre-Orders on Apple iBooks Up to 1 Year

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Apple offers a powerful marketing feature on iBooks, and even authors who upload directly to Apple can use it.  Your book title can be posted on iBooks for pre-order – up to one year before book launch – even if you don’t have a book cover or interior file yet.  (However, it’s advisable to have the cover at least).  Pre-release twelve months in advance and you’ve got twelve months of people discovering your book before it hits the market.  That can mean twelve months of additional sales in those first few days.  All you need is your metadata: the book title, author, book description, price, pre-order and release date. Way more favorable than Amazon’s pre-order conditions!

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Easy Upload if You Have Access to a Mac.
Authors can distribute to iBooks on their own or through an aggregator (kind of a distributor) such as ebookpartnership.com, who are the only aggregator with a yearly low flat rate, which means you keep 100% of the online sales revenue.   Any author who goes the direct upload route with iBooks can certainly use their own Mac computer to upload.
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Mark Coker von Smashword wrote: “On a median basis, e-books born as pre-orders earned the authors 3 1/2 times more income than books that were simply uploaded the day of release.  The average was even more stunning.  The bottom line, however, is that about 90% of indies are failing to take full advantage of this amazing tool.  If you don’t have your next 12 months of planned releases listed as pre-orders today, then you’re leaving readers and money on the table.  Preorders are such an essential best practice that it’s simply dumb not to take the time to learn how to use them to your advantage.
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The Book Designer Writes:
“This presents a huge opportunity to build sales and buzz around a book, especially for authors with a fan base and writing books in series, because iBooks factors all pre-orders into first-day sales.  So books will often hit the bestseller charts based on orders that have been accumulating for months.”
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Apple Explains:
“Additionally, you can add excerpts or chapters to your books in advance of the release date.  Readers love to have access to early samples and will often share them with their friends and fans, helping you to grow your audience even more before your book releases.”
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Apple’s Detailed Instructions:

Setting Up Pre-Orders with Metadata Only
To offer your book for pre-order on iBooks without assets:

  • Open iTunes Producer
  • Enter the book’s metadata in the Details pane
  • Click on the Price pane
  • Enter a Pre-Order Start Date, a Sales Start Date (Release Date), the rights and pricing details
  • Select Save from the File menu
  • Click Submit

BTW:  Title, author, book description, etc.  can still be changed prior to the release, as well as the release date itself.  Compare this to Amazon! Way better conditions!
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Once your files are ready:

  • Search for your pre-order in iTunes Producer by typing the title or Apple ID in the “Search iTunes Connect” field
  • Drag and drop the cover or screenshots in the Details pane
  • Drag and drop the book file(s) in the Files pane
  • Click Submit
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Files must be submitted at least 10 business days prior to the scheduled release date to ensure they pass review and are available to customers on the expected date.  Don’t wait until the last minute.  If you plan to publish a book in early 2016, you are able to set it up for pre-order already on Apple iBooks. 
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If you need help during this process or have questions, you can contact the iBooks support team at (877) 206-2092 Mondays through Fridays, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time.  Or, click “Contact Us” under Resources and Help in iTunes Connect to send them an email: ibooks_applicationsupport@apple.com

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The iBooks Store Currently Offers Books in 51 Territories:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the USA and Venezuela.

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Signing up on iBook Store.
To offer your books on the iBooks Store, enable your Apple ID for iTunes Connect, provide your publisher name, and indicate whether you will be submitting your own books or submitting books on behalf of a company.  If you don’t have a Mac with OS X 10.9 or later, you may choose to work with an Apple-approved aggregator to submit and offer books on iBooks.  Books at Apple’s iBook store can be read on tablets, iPhone and PC.

Apple got serious with its operating system finally and included iBooks as a stand alone app instead of making the reader jump through hoops on iTunes (where half of them probably bought the new Adele song instead!)

If Apple could just swallow their pride for once and make an Android app for iBooks, imagine what could happen…

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