How to create a Free Books Account for iBooks

If you need to submit a Free books on the iBooks Store, you need to create a Free Books Account. Even if you already have an iOS Account, you still need to create a new account for books, both are entirely different.

Few things before we proceed
If you already have an iTunes Connect account associated with your Apple ID, you still need to create a New Apple ID (with Credit Card details)
Free Books and Paid Books Account are entirely different
If you wish to sell your books later, you cannot change your 'Free Books Account' to 'Paid Books Account'. You need to create a new 'Paid Books Account'.
Even for 'Free Books Account', you still need a credit card details. If you wish to purchase books, you can use the same account

01. Go to iTunes Connect >> https://itunesconnect.apple.com/ , click 'Get Started'

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02. Click 'Learn more' under Books.

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03. 'Get Started'

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04. Click the 'Create a Free Books Account'

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05. Fill your Apple ID and password.
Enter the Name details that you used it when created the Apple ID.

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06. Fill in all the details.

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07. 'Done'

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08. Check your email to activate the account. If you do not find it in your inbox check the spam.

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09. The newly created apple id will display in the mail field, if not fill in the information.

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10. 'Accept Terms'

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11. You can access everything here.

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How to Create an Apple ID (without credit card)

Most of you know if you need to buy anything from apple store you need to have an apple id.
You can use Apple ID in
- App Store
- Apple Development Programs
- Apple Store
- Apple TV
- Game Center
- iBooks Store
- iCloud
- iTunes U
and so on..

If you try to download any free apps, apple still ask you the credit card details. But, there is a way you can get the ID without using credit card.
You can still use this ID just like any other apple id to download free items from the Store. Remember, 'APPLE ID' CANNOT BE DELETED. So choose a proper email id before you create one.

Open the iTunes

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Scroll down to the bottom of the page to change the country option. You cannot skip this step, because you need to provide the zip code while creating the ID.

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Select your country.

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Click the 'App Store' tab.

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Click the 'TOP FREE APPS'

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Click the 'Free' button under any one of the app, this will brings the Sign in window and click the 'Create Apple ID' button.

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Continue.

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Agree.

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You have to fill in all the details. The email you enter here is going to be your Apple ID and the password is the apple id password (not your email password). Continue.

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You can see the option 'None.'
If the None button is selected, you do not see any credit card information below. Just fill the billing address.

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You will see the Verify Apple ID page.
If you do not find the verification mail in your inbox, check your spam folder

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But, if you have created the Apple ID from >> Create Apple ID, you will not see the Payment Method page and your Apple ID is ready (but you cannot use it).

If you go to itunes and try to Sign In, they will ask you to review your account and send you to the Payment Method page with no 'None' button (fig 5.0). In order to continue shopping even if you are going to download only free apps you still need to add the credit card details here. You cannot skip this method, if you do so then you cannot able to sign in to itunes.

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iBook Author - Save As... option

In case if you are wondering where is Save as option in iBook Author, here's the hidden key.
Hold the Option (alt) key when you open the File menu.

PS 19 - How to copy and paste the Shape Attributes from one object to an another

When working on multiple shapes, repeating the fill and stroke attributes from navigation bar can be painful. You can copy and paste the attributes directly from the shape or shape layer.

You can do this in two ways. You can copy and paste Stroke and Fill separately. So you can apply stroke to one object and color to another or even apply both. You can also copy and paste both properties without doing multiple times.

Let's look at both methods here.

Here i have three boxes, and these are all shapes and not pixels, you can see it in the layer palette. The first two has fill and stroke and the rest has only fill.

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Let's copy only the stroke property and paste it on the other shape.

01. Select the Path or Direct Selection tool
02. Select the Shape
03. Right-click and select Copy Complete Stroke from the Context menu.

Select the other shape (fig 2.0 - 2) and paste it.
Notice the Stroke and line properties at the top (fig 2.0 - 3), it automatically changes.

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Now lets do the same for Fill.
Even after i pasted the fill property, it does not overlap the stroke.

Now instead of doing multiple times, what if we want to fill both attributes at a time.

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Instead of right-clicking on the shape, select its layer and right-click.
This option will be greyed out if you select other than shape layer. Select the original shape layer, Copy Shape Attributes; Select the other shape and paste it.

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You can also paste on multiple shape layers.

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You cannot copy multiple shape layers, you can only paste them.

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But you can copy multiple shapes in one layer. A layer contains only one stroke and one fill type; so it does not matter how many different shapes you have, as long as you have only one layer.

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Shape attributes store only Fill and Stroke properties. So it still applies even if you have different shapes.

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Here, i have used the same pattern but applied through layer styles (stroke and pattern overlay).
Notice the second image (fig 8.0 - 2), both fill and stoke is set to none.

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Let me turn on the effects for that shape.
I can still able to copy the attributes from the context menu. I can also paste it on another object; but notice what happens, it stripes even the existing color.

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