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iBook Store and Personal Publishing

There used to be a loophole for PDF uploads in the iBook Store. A few of my fans on Seven Summits Quest Facebook asked if I could provide my books in iPad format so I went through a near-exhaustive process of signing up as a publisher in the iBook Store. This was a pretty serious undertaking. B&N was the easiest to sign up for. Amazon was fairly simple. Apple was a long complicated process of bank and ID verification.

After over a month of that, I finally was ready to publish. There was no way to publish. I dug all over the place, and apparently the PDF loophole was closed. Uploading wasn't possible, even for properly formatted and converted ebooks.

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The only way to do it on your own as a publisher was to buy a relatively expensive new computer and install their free software and rewrite the book in that software. The second option was to hire one of their preferred providers to do all that for you. For a fee. In both cases though it was expensive enough that I would need to sell 5,000 copies of my books to break even. The two or three people who had asked me about it of course would not be even a small percentage of that number.

So for them, the people who need it in something an iPad can read, without having to go so far as downloading the free B&N or Amazon apps, I have started selling my own PDF versions of the books on my other blog - CLICK HERE FOR MY BOOKS

I hope that works for you, and if you can please leave a great review for any of my books (neither Amazon nor B&N require you to be a member/logged in, nor to have purchased it there). Leave a review on Goodreads - My Goodreads Author Profile
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