Answers.Body: <p>There is most likely an API working between iTunes Producer and the iBookstore, <strong>but AFAIK Apple has not published it</strong>. It is of course much easier for Apple to control a protocol&mdash; and change if needed&mdash;when you control both client and server sides (client: iTunes Producer, server: iBookstore). This keeps development cheaper than with a published API and it might even allow Apple offload some of the work to the client side that they don't want to re-check on the server.</p>
  
  <p>If you are not willing to do repetitive work using iTunes Producer, I see two possible alternatives:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>checkout if any of the iBookstore aggregators (<a href="https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/wa/displayAggregators?ccTypeId=13" rel="nofollow">approved</a> or <a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2436878?threadID=2436878&amp;tstart=0&amp;messageID=11553151" rel="nofollow">others</a>) has an API you can use. Of course a commercial service costs you, reducing earnings from the list price down from 70% when directly dealing with Apple¹. </p></li>
  <li><p>programmatically drive the iTunes Producer application to do the uploading  using the <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Carbon/Reference/QuartzEventServicesRef/Reference/reference.html" rel="nofollow">Quartz Event Services</a>². This might actually be quicker to develop than trying to interface with an API programmatically.</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>¹ <sub>I am not sure if any aggregators have an API available. Earning will  e.g. be down to 63%  using <a href="http://connect.lulu.com/t5/ISBN-Distribution/How-to-get-your-eBook-on-the-iBookstore-Authors/ta-p/33460" rel="nofollow">Lulu</a>; to 60% using <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_ipad_ebooks" rel="nofollow">Smashwords</a></sub></p>
  
  <p>² <sub>I have done that kind of automation, programming the 'driver'
  for the <code>.tiff</code> to <code>.djvu</code> conversion in a Windows GUI application.</sub></p>
  
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Body: <p>I am wondering if there is an API that will allow me to push epubs, with all the needed meta data, to Apple iTunes/iBookstore. Currently I am using the desktop app iTunes Producer.</p>
  
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Title: Is there a way to push epubs to iBookstore moreover using iTunes Producer?
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ThreadText: # Is there a way to push epubs to iBookstore moreover using iTunes Producer?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-01-04)
  
  I am wondering if there is an API that will allow me to push epubs, with all the needed meta data, to Apple iTunes/iBookstore. Currently I am using the desktop app iTunes Producer.
  
  **Tags:** publishing
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-01-04. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  There is most likely an API working between iTunes Producer and the iBookstore, **but AFAIK Apple has not published it**. It is of course much easier for Apple to control a protocol— and change if needed—when you control both client and server sides (client: iTunes Producer, server: iBookstore). This keeps development cheaper than with a published API and it might even allow Apple offload some of the work to the client side that they don't want to re-check on the server.
  
  If you are not willing to do repetitive work using iTunes Producer, I see two possible alternatives:
  
  * checkout if any of the iBookstore aggregators ([approved](https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/wa/displayAggregators?ccTypeId=13) or [others](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2436878?threadID=2436878&tstart=0&messageID=11553151)) has an API you can use. Of course a commercial service costs you, reducing earnings from the list price down from 70% when directly dealing with Apple¹.
  * programmatically drive the iTunes Producer application to do the uploading using the [Quartz Event Services](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Carbon/Reference/QuartzEventServicesRef/Reference/reference.html)². This might actually be quicker to develop than trying to interface with an API programmatically.
  
  ¹ I am not sure if any aggregators have an API available. Earning will e.g. be down to 63% using [Lulu](http://connect.lulu.com/t5/ISBN-Distribution/How-to-get-your-eBook-on-the-iBookstore-Authors/ta-p/33460); to 60% using [Smashwords](http://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_ipad_ebooks)
  
  ² I have done that kind of automation, programming the 'driver'
  for the `.tiff` to `.djvu` conversion in a Windows GUI application.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: username_1, thanks for your answer. My goal here is to link our CMS with iBookstore, but without reducing our % earnings.  
  
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