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Self-published authors to get in iBookstore via Smashwords
- petercooper 17y agoIf solo developers can get into the App Store directly, why not the iBookstore? Having all these middlemen is crazy. I bet a lot of independents will continue to roll out books through the App Store.. not least because you can make richer experiences that way.
- fierarul 17y agoI'm surprised I can't use my developer account to upload a book to iBookStore directly (or some song on iTunes for the matter). After all I could just put an app that shows the book via iTunes connect, or even put a generic book-reader and sell the books as items in an internal "shop" (via Storekit). So it doesn't make sense that you need a separate track to put a book. But if you aren't making $100/year to cover the fees it might be a better test to use a 3rd party to get on the *-Store. Then again, this is Apple, they probably want separate yearly fees for each of these "stores". So scratch that, I'm not that surprised, it makes total sense now :-)