The bit I am struggling to get my head round or find any reference on the Apple site is once I get the book into epub format how do I then sell it on itunes and stop it being copied around - i.e. so it only runs under the rules set by itunes?
Many thanks
Peter
Start here --
Apple - iTunes - Partner Programs - Book Publishers
Precisely. Converting your .pdf file into an .epub is a technical question. Getting iBooks to sell your book is a question of another color, another epistemology. Now you are in the convoluted and esoteric realms of publication and distribution.
Get thee hence and query thither.
A publisher is going to have a format that they expect to se when they receive any work for consideration. The publisher will also have a protocol of what they wish to receive
before they
request the entire manuscript. You may know these things already, and if you do, my apologies in advance if this sounds condescending. Under no circumstance is that my intention. It is just that getting published is no easy feat. Publishers receive uncountable manuscripts and requests on a daily basis. The smallest thing out of line, the tiniest variance from the format and form the publisher indicates will result in your work getting filed in File 13 (the trash).
I have had two eBooks published. Actually published, not self published by some vanity press or POD "publisher." It was a
VERY long slog, and I made
ALL the mistakes one can make.