IBook Author - Categories

I've created an iBook with iBook Author, downloaded it onto my iPad. When looking at my iBooks in list view the title and author are shown but there is no category and I can't figure out from any documentation where you can define the category for the iBook. Is it possible to set the category for a book which is not published but just shared? How?
TIA
Jon

See this thread for the answer.
Cheers,
Michi.

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