Subcategories in iBookstore

Does the iBookstore have subcategories? I can not seem to find them if it does. For example, when I click on History under "Categories", I do not see an option to browse by specific regions, time periods, etc.

Apple is so successful, and yet so myopic they can't realize when they screw up. OF course they ought to have a suggestion box system where we can all vote on what we want to see, and that would be at the top of the list for the App store. Absolutely moronic that they haven't yet added more categories; ever been to a library? or a bookstore? They have lots of subcategories, and this is DESPERATELY NEEDED. Apple is probably losing a million a day in sales from frustrated users who give up because the app store is just a big pile, kind of like filene's basement in boston after christmas!

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Discoverability in iBookstore from the iPad?

I've been doing a bit of research for the past few weeks about marketing titles published to the iBookstore. I'm a bit puzzled by what appears to be an "invitation only" model to discoverability on the iBookstore when browsing from the iPad. I'm pretty sure that I'm missing something here, so any tips would be appreciated!
First, I can't find ANY way to browse the full set of titles in the iBookstore beyond the first 100 or so in the various curated categories that Apple chooses to create and maintain. For example "Beautiful Children's Books", "Books About Film", etc. All of these catebories appear to be populated at Apple's discretion.
When drilling down into a top-level category, such as Fiction, Nonfiction, Children & Teens, etc., once again the only groupings appear to be curated and hand-picked sub-categories.
It's not clear to me whether even the few "What's Hot" type categories are algorithmic or hand-selected.
From iTunes on a Mac/PC, things are a better. The full set of categories is reachable and is sorted by default using some formula that I'm assuming represents popularity. You can also sort by title.
Since most people who want to read a book on an iPad use the iPad interface to the iBookstore, what options are there to a) begging Apple to include you in a curated cateogry or b) searching for the book by its title?
Thanks for any help that you can give!

I have the same or at least similar issue. If I'm looking for a new book in a given category, say mysteries and thrillers, I can see a list of 100 "new release" books that seem to be curated picks by iBooks. No where can I see a list of all new releases, so unless I know the title of a newly released book, it's unlikely I will com across it by just browsing iBooks. Compare this to Amazon where I can view every single kindle book released in the last 30 days, 90 days or ever. Kindle makes it much easier to browse all titles available. They also provide subcategories, which helps with browsing. So the question(s) in all of this are:
1. Is there a way to see all new releases based on publication date, not just the 100 books placed on the seemingly curated list?
2. Is there a way to just browse all books, not just new releases or a curated subsets, without searching by specific author or knowing the book title? In other words, can I sort all books in a category based on ratings/reviews, pub date, best selling, etc?
Right now, I find myself browsing books on the amazon kindle site then coming to iBooks to look up/buy the book because the browsing options in iBooks are so limited. I feel like I'm only seeing a small subset of the books available on iBooks and as a result, missing out on some good reads and/or recent releases by my favorite authors because they don't make the curated lists. Maybe I should just go back to using theKindle app for iPad.

IBooks categories and subcategories

Maybe I'm blind but I can't see any way to filter the categories down into subcategories. Is that possible? I also cannot see any rhyme or reason to the subcategories Apple puts by default on each categories home screen. For example, Sports has a subcategory section for recent releases and golf on the Sports "home screen" (for lack of a better term). There's no way to change the subcategories that I can see and why in the world would golf be put there as an arbitrary subcategory?
At this point the Kindle bookstore is a million times easier to navigate. I'm not talking content. I don't expect the iBookstore to have a ton of content at this point but trying to find a book is a royal pain. Based on the limited surfing I've done in a few categories I don't see how it has anywhere close to 60,000 books since I quickly get to the end of the books that I'm able to browse through in each category. Makes me think there's something I'm missing.

Hi,
If you want to get it by product (RepositoryItem), you can do product.getPropertyValue("parentCategories"). It will bring all product parent categories.
ATG uses the same items to describe categories and subcategories, with type "category".
If you want to get by site (RepositoryItem), you can do site.getPropertyValue("defaultCatalog"), and get all categories from the defaultCatalog repository item.
Hope it helps.

Where to check iBookstore content?

I happened to live in a country (Singapore) with no paid iBookstore support. But we wanted to sell paid books on iBookstore.
Is there a web site or some ways that we can check out the bookstore content or see the charts? Thanks!

You can use iTunes on your computer to view into any country's store, but to purchase you must log in to your own country.
Use the flag icon lower right to see other stores.

HT204053 What are the pros and cons of 1) choosing to use the SAME Apple ID for iCloud services on one side, and purchases on the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore, on the other side; or 2) to have and use two separate Apple Ids for these "two sides

All is in the title, so I repeat it below with a better identation.
What are the pros and cons of
1) choosing to use the SAME
Apple ID for iCloud services on one side, and
purchases on the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore, on the other side; or
2) to have and use two separate Apple Ids for these "two sides"?
P.S.
I have loads and loads of free podcasts in iTunes in my iMac, that are certainly more thant the 5 gigas the iCloud provides for free, so I don't want those to go to the cloud. But this is perhaps a different question...
Also need to mention that I have itunes on a mac, a pc and an iphone.
Sorry to look so silly with this question, but I don't get the "big picture".

You need to create a user account for your wife (or yourself depending on who has the current user account). When syncing, each of you should sign in as a separate user, login to iTunes and then sync. I had this problem when my sister got an iPhone. When we did her initial sync, everything on my iPhone showed up on hers. Apple gave me this solution.

How can I update the description of my book that is for sale on the iBookstore?

I have tried to update it through iTunes Producer, in the "Look up Metadata" and the "Open Package" modules. The new epubs that I upload appear to get published immediately, but the description is never updated in the iBookstore. I have emailed Apple three times about this in the past two weeks but haven't gotten any response.

I guess I misunderstood the reason for the decrease of your sellings.
I thought you made an update and THAN you got the problem.
But in fact it seems the problem is due to NOT having success with the update.
however, perhaps I can contribute what I got from a friendly person at itunes support:
"With regard to changes that can be made, once a title has been delivered to the iBookstore, the only changes that can be made through iTunes Connect are updates to pricing, territory rights, Cleared For Sale/Not Cleared For Sale, and DRM settings.
For all other changes (e.g. correcting author name or book title), please make a metadata change request through the Contact Us form in iTunes Connect under the topic "Metadata, File Formats, and Subject Categories."
Actually that is not the whole story, particuly regarding using producer. It seems to me that I did read somewhere that there is a kind of maximum for updates per quarter of year. I mean updates that are NIT regarded as new versions of a book. I somebody could write an ibook about all this matters, easy to understand and complete, with an index, would be great. i would buy first.

Is there a way to create new keywords that are NOT subcategories of other keywords in PSE Organizer?

I would like to create a new keyword in the Organizer that is not a subcategory of OTHER.
Specifically I would like to create the keyword PETS, which could in turn have subcategories of different pets.
Currently the only way I can do this is to create PETS as a subcategory of OTHER which I would prefer not to do.
If this can be done, please advise me (in detail) how this can be done.
I am using PSE13 with Windows 8.1 (64-bit) as my OS.
Thank you, in advance, for your assistance.

Hi,
Have you tried selecting New Category from the drop down list?
Brian

Is there any way to create a book for ibookstore in windows pc?

Is there any way to create a book for ibookstore in windows pc?

Yes, you create in the .epub format with whatever Windows app you want to use for that and then use an Aggregator like SmashWords to upload the book to the iBookstore. Direct upload is only possible from OS X.

I want to create a payment account in iBookstore, but I live in Chile. Is it possible?

I need to create a payment account to sell books on iBookstore, but from Chile I have been very complicated.
I have two questions:
1.-The Apple requests bank account must necessarily, be issued by a U.S. bank.
2.-which form should I fill as a foreign national to obtain an EIN I asked Apple.
Thanks.

No, you don't need a US bank account. Any account that can accept direct payments from an overseas source will work.
See this link for how to get started and obtain an EIN. (Doing this over the phone with the IRS after filling in the form is the quickest and easiest way to get this done.)
http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/book-faq.html
Michi.

Photo gallery able to reorganise into subcategories + adding new images via in-browser editing

Hi,
I'm looking for a photo gallery which has the ability to reorganise the images displayed based on subcategories or tags. For example I want to add a gallery which contains photos of a clients projects. The client wants site visitors to be able to shuffle the gallery to view only for example "stone walls" or "timber decking". A tagging system would be handy rather than having to load the photos into each subcategory.
The other consideration is that my client needs to be able to add new images with tags using the in-browser via Business Catalyst. So far I have only succeeded in replacing existing images rather than adding new images.
Is there such a widget for Muse or are there anyother widgets for wordp-ress or other which could be embedded to tdo the job.
Thanks in advance,
Jimmy

Hi Jimmy
If I am not wrong, basically you want to provide users an option to select category of images which they want to show up on page.
From Muse we cannot tag or categorize them , also photogallery module in BC does not provides this option, but there is a workaround with web apps.
You can create a web app and then web app items as images and then categorize them. On page insert the web app with categories drop down, so when users will select the category those web app items would be displayed on page. Additionally you can add custom fields in web app to search using keyword.
With editing , clients can login to BC admin and then using photogallery module or web app module ( if used ) to edit the images, add new ones. IBE cannot be used to add new ones but to replace existing ones.
Helpful Links :
http://helpx.adobe.com/business-catalyst/partner/web-apps.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/business-catalyst/partner/building-web-apps-part-1.html
Thanks,
Sanjit

HT5213 I have two books published to the iBookstore via Blurb. Unfortunately, they just used my first name on the second book. It is like it is by a different author to the first book. -The two books are not linked. Is there anyway I can edit the author's

Hello. I have just joined this community and would be grateful for advice on editing my name submitted to the iBookstore by Blurb on one of my books. I would like to have both of my books with the same author's name. Is it possible? Thank you.

Thank you, Tom. I did contact Blurb support back in March and was told the following:
"We are not able to change the specifications of how Apple Itunes show the author's name on their site.
Apple always have strict specifications of how they set up the Ebook on their site.
This issue can only be solved by contacting Apply and they will not change the name of the site".
I didn't know how or where to contact Apple at that time and gave up. I am resurrecting the issue now as I have seen I have sold some books and would like the people who bought them to learn of my other book.
I am grateful to both Blurb and Apple for making my books possible, but I would like to fix this issue. I will contact Blurb again.
Thanks for your support.

Why does my iBook not have a file size on the iBookstore?

Hi everyone,
I apologise if this has already been answered, however, I could not find an answer anywhere. Basically, I submitted a children's iBook (The Tale Of Blob-Ba-Cus) to the iBookstore in June. In the section on the iBookstore where is says author, publisher, category etc. there is no file size listed. My book was created with iBooks Author and I submitted it through iTunes Producer. I never came across a field in the metadata for file size. I just presumed maybe it would appear automatically once submitted. Did I miss something?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Jade.

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Help with Links to my book/publisher page from ibook to ibookstore

My question : What is the correct way to get links to specific ibooks and publisher pages and on the iBookstore - as I have had trouble with mine.
Many of the iBooks and ePubs samples (Dorling Kindersly for example) that I've downloaded from the iBookstore have a button at the back which takes you to the page for the book itself where you can purchase the complete book.
Similarly on the books themselves they have links to their publisher pages.
• Firstly, I can't work out how to link to a book which hasn't been published yet - So at the back of my samples I put a button next which links to my 'Publishers Page' (see below)
• Secondly, I can't work out how to make a proper publisher page - if there is such a thing - the only way I've managed is to add the publishers name as an 'Author' to the book itest, searching for the authour in linkmaker, then linking to that page:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/elizabeth-beecher-publishing/id537956085?mt=1 1&uo=4
The main issue is that on my clients (newer) ipad some of the links behave differently... some only take to search page.
What I am currently doing:
• Finding the links by going to http://itunes.apple.com/linkmaker/ then searching for the name of my publisher, where I get to link to the 'artists page' then as all my publications will list the publisher as an Author, when in the new sample they visit this link it should take them to the page with all our publications on, including the one that they have just downloaded a sample of.

Apple has recently introduced 'short links'. That document requires a developer account to access, but this may be of interest:
there is a known issue (r.7414684) where itunes.apple.com links to your company's page do not open the App Store from within your app, giving an error instead; these links include "viewArtist" or "/artist/" in the URL, for example,

How to classify a Document into Category and subcategories

Hi,
We have a fully functional basic KM system where we upload documents into folders and subfolders. Now we have a requirement to classify the documents into categories and subcategories at the time of uploading the document. This classification will be irrespective of the physical location (folder/subfolder) of the document. For example I may have two different documents in the same subfolder, one may be classified as category "General" and subcategory "News", and the other may be classified as category "Technical" and subcategory "Whitepaper".
Also we should be able to filter our document search based on subcategories. When we search a document based on a subcategory, then the search must fetch only those documents which have been marked as belonging to that subcategory while uploading the document. In the search page, the categories must appear as dropdowns and the dropdown values must contain the respective subcategories.
As mentioned earlier, these categories and subcategories are independent of the KM directory structure.
Please let us know how to go about this step by step.
regards,
SJ.

Hi
I think you can solve your problem with "Custom Properties"
Using custom properties, u will not only get "Check box", but also "Dropdown"
In your custom property, do the following
Multivalued : Check the check box
Allowed Values (csv) : Give your options
Please check this <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/de31ec90-0201-0010-be95-f501d25027a8">article</a>
It talks about dependent properties, through which you can have , category & subcategories
Hope this will help you
Regards
Aparnna

ITunes Connect: Support update for the iBookstore 8.24.12

Funny how they tout the forums as the first of four items for 'ways to get answers', yet they can't find the time to post here....oh well
To better serve your needs, English-language phone support is now available to iBookstore publishers. With this new option, we now offer four ways to get answers to your questions:
The Book Forum is a community-based, collaborative environment to find solutions and share tips on creating, delivering, and marketing books in the iBookstore.
The iTunes Connect FAQ is constantly updated to answer common questions.
The iTunes Connect Contact Us module provides the option to send inquires directly to the support team, for email-based support.
If you prefer to speak to one of our iBookstore Publisher Support advisors, you can also use phone support. To contact the phone support for publishers, call +1 (877) 206-2092. Phone support is available in English only and provides the same support as our email support option. Calls are toll-free from the U.S. and Canada. International calling rates may apply elsewhere. An active iTunes Connect account is required to use this option.
The iBookstore support team is available to assist you via email and phone, Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Pacific). When requesting support, be sure to provide as much detail as possible, including:
The book's Apple ID, ISBN, or vendor ID and the title (for title-specific queries).
The transfer log for delivery failures. Include the entire transfer log in your Contact Us inquiry. You can access the transfer log by clicking the magnifying glass in the iTunes Producer delivery window. You can also use the “Send to Apple” feature in iTunes Producer to submit the entire log for review.
The device, browser, version number, and operating system for technical issues in the iBookstore or on iTunes Connect. You can get this information by choosing About This Mac from the Apple menu in OS X.
Any other details that can help us replicate and resolve the issue.
Regards,
The iBookstore team

...and on top of all this chatter, iOS devs are having apps rejected left/right while being told to make books instead.
I'd also expect that when/if calling that support phone number the most common reply is to come here for help.

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