Re: Apple iTunes vs. Apple iBookstore

Why not just use smashwords? No headaches.
Acx audio goes to itunes, that also links to kindle and amazon. -Worked
fine for me.
Victor Brodt

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:20 AM, BD Lyons <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Do people buy there? Yes. How well you sell will depend on everything from
> genre to pure luck. Do you want to deal with them? Your call, but I'll warn
> you that it's a pain in the backside, and Apple shows NO signs of fixing
> what's wrong with their system.
> iTunes Producer (and Apple in general) is the most backward system you
> will ever have to deal with, as a content provider. It's friendly enough
> for their end consumers, but not for us.
> Examples? They keep changing their specs for books uploaded. They keep
> changing their iTunes Producer software (and there is no...ZILCH...support
> for that program, at least that I've found...their own tech staff said they
> knew nothing about the software to help me with it when I was getting a
> non-specific error from it). Worse, as they update the iTP software, they
> make it so that it won't work with older OS versions and force you to keep
> updating your OS to stay even with what iTP will work with. I've already
> been forced into a PAID update of OS just to keep loading books.
> Beyond that, their iTP interface is crap. You're already accustomed to
> loading to B&N, Amazon, and other sellers, so you'll understand how
> horrific Apple's system is by the following descriptions.
> They don't have a simple click to sell worldwide. You have to choose each
> individual country from the list, one by one.
> They don't do what Amazon and B&N do and allow you to enter one sale price
> (usually US) and then have them base all other countries on that price,
> doing the currency conversions for you. Nope. You have to do your own
> currency conversions, enter each individual price to be associated with
> each individual country (keeping in mind that Apple requires set points
> that are above or below the actual currency conversion, so if you come in
> at 2.79, you may have to change it to 2.99...and with the non-Euro European
> countries, it's sometimes oddities like setting the price at 12.00 or
> 16.00).
> And, unlike Amazon, they don't automatically add countries to your
> distribution, since you've clicked worldwide distribution. That is probably
> a no-brainer, since they don't do currency conversion for you, but even
> when they added more countries from the European Union, they didn't simply
> make them available at the price you'd already set for France and Germany
> (the first two Euro countries they had aboard). Nope. They want you to go
> back into every book singly and add all new countries and conversions to
> them, pulling you away from your daily work to do catch up their own system
> COULD do for you. That's not a big deal if you have a dozen books, but try
> doing it with 600 or more books and tell me how completely UNFRIENDLY to
> the content providers this entire system is.
> Not to mention the glitches in the software itself... Don't get me
> started. If I have embedded a font in the file. I really don't care for a
> book to be bounced, just because they don't "like" the font. I have license
> to use it and have embedded it. Why should I have to reformat a book for
> them and make the interior presentation not match the cover, just because
> Apple doesn't want to accept it? Everyone else accepts the same exact ePub
> file.
>
> I think you have a mistaken idea about one thing though. I don't own an
> iPad, but people who do tell me they find my books on iBookstore, though
> they are loaded via iTunes Producer. I don't think this is an either/or
> situation as you're envisioning.
> Brenna
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> From what I can tell one can set up an account through Apple's iTunes store
>
> and upload epub files. But to include your title in Apple's iBookstore you
>
> have to provide a proprietary formatted file.
>
> All of our titles are published as epub files. Due to time constraints
>
> I've chosen to only deal with that format for now. So my question is this:
>
> Are people buying e-books through iTunes?
>
> Has anyone ever distributed their titles through both iTunes and
>
> iBookstore? Is anyone selling through iTunes and find it worth their while?
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