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1Add Content |
2Put publications up for sale |
3Communicate and Secure it |
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1. Add Content |
2. Put publications up for sale |
3. Communicate and Secure it |
Add a publication
Fill out the description
Add a PDF
Some advices for setting up the PDF file.
A PDF may only be added to allow the display of the flipbook.
Add an ePub
Suggestions for creating ePub files...
Add information about the paper version
These informations allow for linking the information about the paper version of the publication solde by traditional bookstores. They are also important for libraries so they can manage loans.
Add an enriched ePub and / or Mobi file
Information about contibutors
Adding several publications
To add several publications at the same time, read this document.
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Three steps are necessary to put publications up for sale: |
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Step 1. Add prices
Note 1 : Note that prices in Euros must be provided with all taxes included.
Note 2 : Note that every price you add is automatically sent to all retail outlets you have opened, except for Apple, which imposes specific conditions. Without these, publications will not be sold through the Apple iBookstore.
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Step 2. Provide the date of Availability
Note : If the date of availability is later than today’s date, the button will remain red until the scheduled date.
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If the publication added has a date of publication in the future, keep it Unavailable (with a red circle). |
Step 3. Put oline
Change a publication from Offline to Online in one click.
This operation will allow for the sending of the publication to all retailers already open, including external partners, when the automatic sending settings have been activated.
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Add the Table of Contents
The Chapter and Pages section allows you to see the table of contents. Most fields are filled out automatically after uploading a PDF file.
The Chapitres and pages / Table of contents section
The table of contents is automatically extracted from the PDF file if you have created bookmarks in it. Refer to the guide about creating PDF files.
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The Chapitres and pages / Pages section
If you wish page numbers in the flipbook table of contents to be the same as those printed in the file (the pages in the paper book), you can indicate how many non-paginated pages and pages in roman numerals are found at the beginning of the publication. The number of pages in the publication is automatically obtained from the PDF file.
Secure it: Watermark ou ACS4 ?
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Publish an Extract
From the PDF
When you add a PDF, the Flipbook tool is activated. Configure it to choose which pages to show or hide.
To find out more about Flipbook.
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If the computer used to browse a publication is connected to your personal account, the publication will be browsable in its entirety. |
From the ePub file
Uploading an ePub file does not automatically generate an extract. If you wish to make an extract available in ePub format, you need to produce it.This file must conform to the same requirements as ePub files for complete publications. Afterwards, place it in the Media section.
Some external partners, such as Apple and Amazon, automatically generate an extract for each ePub file uploaded to their system.
Provide Classifications
The information included in these fields will help readers find publications through different search engines.
Different classification possibilities are available.
Keywords to link terms to your publication to facilitate searching for it, separated by semicolons.
BISAC is a renowned international book classification system. It is mandatory to fill this out if you wish to sell your books through some bookstores such as Feedbooks, Kobo and Apple.
CLIL: French classification system.
Dewey: Canadian classification system used mostly by libraries (optional).
Electre: BTLF classification system (optional).
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Add Media
Add the main cover
The first page of your PDF file (if you uploaded a PDF file) is automatically extracted as an image and provided to bookstores so they may use it as a cover page.
This image is also used in the Overview, as the cover page image.
If you upload your own cover page image in the Media section, this image will be used instead of the first page of the PDF file.
If you only upload an ePub file, the cover page will be automatically added to Media.
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A cover page image in high resolution must be placed in Media. The shortest side of this image must have a minimum of 1400 pixels. The image of the cover page within an ePub file must not be larger than 2 million pixels, as well as all images in the ePub file. How to replace the image of the cover page in Media. |
Add other media
Improve the presentation of your publication by adding relevant media:
- Media files are public, freely downloadable without protection and associated to the publication
- Media can include all sorts of files (pdf, mp3, wav, mov, jpeg, etc.)
- Each media item can be selected from your computer or obtained from a hyperlink.