- #WHAT DO YOU DO IF IBOOKS DOWNLOAD FAILS ZIP FILE#
- #WHAT DO YOU DO IF IBOOKS DOWNLOAD FAILS SOFTWARE#
Tip #1: The manifest must have a tag for every file (apparently except container.xml and mimetype) in your package. This isn't the only way to do it, but since InDesign exported using this structure, I've just left it as-is:Ĭontent.opf contains a number of tag sections, including - most importantly - the manifest and guide sections. This is the folder organization for my ePub. Here's the thing: the content.opf and toc.ncx files are key to making all this work.
The container.xml file contains a reference to the content.opf file, which, in turn, references the toc.ncx file.
#WHAT DO YOU DO IF IBOOKS DOWNLOAD FAILS ZIP FILE#
What follows are those tips, some experiments I tried, and - later - my results.Īn ePub file is basically a zip file filled with a bunch of XML documents. In addition to being contacted by people who experienced the problem, I was also contacted by certain very knowledgeable people who gave me some very helpful hints. That said, I will be self-censoring some information for this article. In terms of media organizations and companies I've worked with, I've only been censored once for all I've written - and that one time it was actually a polite request to not publish, rather than any sort of demand. Because I'm privy to some sensitive national security and counterterrorism details outside of the media realm, I self-censor much of what I write. 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.Īside: As many of you know, I write a lot of politics-related material. 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.
#WHAT DO YOU DO IF IBOOKS DOWNLOAD FAILS SOFTWARE#
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. This article will explain in detail what I tried and what I learned. Along the way, I got to make a bunch of new friends, learned a lot, and actually made progress.īefore I go any further, let me say that I did get the iTunes store to accept my ePub file. What was supposed to be just a weekend project turned into a week-long research project.
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