Publish greyed out iBooks Author

Hi Publish and Preview are both greyed out in iBooks Author. My book is done but I can't publish. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
Mark

If you're not headed for the store, then neither 'Publish' nor direct w/iTP is involved.
Use iBA's Share/Export menu and output an .ibooks file.
Note that you won't get a 'normal' epub...iBA outputs a hybird epub. Also note that Google may know about .ibooks-to-.epub convertors if that's needed, but no idea how reliable they are.

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