Apple Books for Authors vs Google Play Books Partner Center
February 07, 2026 | Author: Laura Candler
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A self-publishing platform for the Apple Books ecosystem. Books can be published through an iTunes Connect account. Authors get 70% royalties on each e-book, regardless of price and can publish books for free. The platform provides tools for preparing books for publication, including converting from Word to EPUB, KF8, or PDF, creating covers, formatting files and creating beautiful page structure. It also makes it easy to convert a book into an audiobook with digital narration.
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Google Play is a book publishing platform used by billions of Android users worldwide. Books from Google Play can also be found and viewed in the world's most popular search engine, Google Books. The Play Books Partner Center makes it easy to upload content, set prices and select the countries in which you want to sell your books. Authors receive 70% of the sales revenue for content at any price point. Google claims that its personalized recommendation system allows any book to find readers worldwide. Besides, your book's visibility on Google Play Books can be significantly increased by using Google Play promotions. Google offers a variety of marketing opportunities that you can use to attract potential readers through personalized advertising.
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2017. iBooks Author gets new tools
Apple released an update to its ebook creation software iBooks Author that adds the ability to add images and videos from Photos, the Mac photo management app. There are some other minor changes, such as support for wide color gamut images. Many people have moved on from iBooks Author to other digital publishing apps. This is because this program is only compatible with Apple products and does not work with Amazon, Google and other online retailers. People have accused Apple of giving up on digital publishing in general. Its latest iOS update killed off the subcategories inside Magazines & Newspapers rather than fixing them, and so makes finding new digital edition apps next to impossible.
