Authors can no longer publish to Apple Books directly from Pages

Five years after it gave up on its iBooks Author app, Apple is now removing the ability for Pages to send books straight to the Apple Books store.Pages for Mac still has the menu option for publishing to Apple Books, but now it just means export to ePubInitially, Apple made a big deal of its original iBooks Author app in 2012, and how it let users create richly formatted books they could then immediately sell on its then iBooks Store. Only, iBooks Author had bugs, and Apple retired it in June 2020, when it also subsumed the app's publishing features into Pages.As ever with the Book Store or publishing apps, there then followed silence from Apple, until Thursday. Apple emailed publishers with the news that Pages would no longer support publishing to the Apple Book Store. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Apr 4, 2025 - 13:02
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Authors can no longer publish to Apple Books directly from Pages
Five years after it gave up on its iBooks Author app, Apple is now removing the ability for Pages to send books straight to the Apple Books store.

Apple Pages app icon featuring a white pen on an orange background, alongside menu options like Share, Export To, and Convert to Page Layout.
Pages for Mac still has the menu option for publishing to Apple Books, but now it just means export to ePub

Initially, Apple made a big deal of its original iBooks Author app in 2012, and how it let users create richly formatted books they could then immediately sell on its then iBooks Store. Only, iBooks Author had bugs, and Apple retired it in June 2020, when it also subsumed the app's publishing features into Pages.

As ever with the Book Store or publishing apps, there then followed silence from Apple, until Thursday. Apple emailed publishers with the news that Pages would no longer support publishing to the Apple Book Store.


Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums