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I got rid of all underscores and any other encoding. I converted all file names to lower-case and removed spaces, replacing them with dashes.

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What if the Apple code wasn't cleaning this stuff up right? That means that certain parts of my programs expect data formatted in certain ways, and expect file names to be encoded in certain ways. I thought about this suggestion, though, and I realized that as a programmer, I often normalize everything I can, so that I can be sure of what I'm working with. I'd actually already done this, and the problem still was there. Your package size (heh, heh, he said 'package size' - settle down, Beavis!) must not exceed 4GB.įinally, it was suggested that all the XML file references need to be properly URL encoded, so '02 History of Jobs.xhtml' would become '02%20History%20of%20Jobs.xhtml'. ePub file clocked in at about 557K, but the zip format can handle up to about 4GB. Validation doesn't necessarily mean valid. Tip #4: Even though the files properly validate with an EpubCheck site and validate with iTunes Producer, they're not being tested for everything that Apple's system might require. One interesting discovery during some of my conversations was that the preliminary validation doesn't really guarantee your book will properly import on the Apple store server-side. Tip #3: Here are the three commands I used: I was fortunate enough to find a great tutorial from WebVivant with some interesting hints about properly formatting the command line.

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One plus for the Mac: it has a real *NIX command line. Instead, I decided to use the command line. This was probably harder than it should have been, because most of the Mac zip tools I have are for extracting. We have posted our concerns in the past about Apple's unclear approval policy, but I'm pretty sure the book wasn't censored for political reasons. My favorite TalkBack came from Edesw88 who got the Paranoid-Much? Award for thinking that perhaps Apple's servers blocked the book because it has the word 'Jobs' in the title. I got a surprisingly large number of email messages from other publishers and individuals who were experiencing the same problem, along with many TalkBack postings from people who also experienced similar problems.

What followed were two days with a lot of communication. Read iTunes Publisher inexplicably fails to publish an iBook. I tried a bunch of different ideas, ran into mostly brick walls, and then wrote about my experiences. Everything validated, I got a big green check-mark indicating success, and yet the book didn't appear in iTunes Connect. The next step was preparing the ePub and uploading it to the iTunes store. By contrast it took something like three weeks for my personal iPhone contract to be approved and almost three months for my company's application to be approved. Amazingly (for Apple), I had a signed and approved publisher contract almost immediately. All I needed was another email address and I was in.

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Read iTunes won't let you publish books if you write software I started the process last week, when I attempted to sign in to iTunes Connect using my iPhone developer account and found it wouldn't work.