Do I have to convert to EPUB? If so why this email stating I am all set?

[RolfParker]

After publishing my tiny, 16 page Ebook as a DRM PDF, I received this email. This email seems to contradict information clearly stated on the www.lulu.com website. 

Here is the text.

"Retail Distribution
Your book has been added to the queue for submission to the
iBookstore(SM). All books go through both a Lulu review and an Apple
review process. Unfortunately we are currently unable to provide
timing as to when your book will appear in the iBookstore. We
apologize for the inconvenience. If your book successfully passes
the review it will then be submitted to all free retail channels
for which it is eligible -- without anything else for you to do!"

How can it be in the cue for ibookstore when I have not yet converted it to an EPUB ?

How can there not be "anything else for me to do" when the site clearly states I must either pay to have the conversion done, OR, do it myself?  

If this is true, great, I won't spend another moment working with Sigil and my files. Otherwise, I am prepared to spend hours and hours if necessary. It is Sunday. Tech support comes back tomorrow. Any answers out there about the meaning of this apparent complete contradiciton?

[geekguyatgeekguydotcom]

Don't even bother. The help I recieved from the lulu submission process was absolutely horrible. I edited my book over and over  to try and correct errors and constantly got a general rejection notice saying that "My titlepage and etc didn't match the meta data, blah blah blah from their processing team." If they had just called me to explain in detail WHAT i had to do in sigil to get the thing correctly submitted I'd not have deleted my book and contacted my in-print publisher to get my boook on the iBookstore. I paid $350 bucks to get my book listed on the istore, if Lulu would have handled things with a bit more customer service they'd be selling my book and taking some royalties from the ibookstore sales. Funny that they don't know my book is #1 on the search engines for my topic area and they'd profit heavily from it. Idiots is all I can say. AllI needed is a bit more description as to what my submission had wrong.... but nope, no help, no assistance. Finally, I had submitted the darned thing so many times they banned me from resubmitting to the ibookstore (when they had the opportunity to just contact me and up-sell me the edits I needed to get it submitted). This is how you LOSE money folks, get a clue and get some customer service! Oh, and why the heck have "Live chat" listed on the website if its never going to be accessible? Oh, and why do your rejection notices come from an email address that doesn't allow replies? Idiots. Don't do business with them.

[RolfParker]

Hmm.

There I was waiting for live chat to open up Monday morning. 

Well, I still have hopes, and hopefully they are not entirely unfounded.

Congratulations on your book sales. 

[Peter May · Accepted solution]

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RolfParker wrote:

How can it be in the cue for ibookstore when I have not yet converted it to an EPUB ?

How can there not be "anything else for me to do" when the site clearly states I must either pay to have the conversion done, OR, do it myself?  

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Lulu have been automatically converting Lulu books to Apple format and listing them on the iBookstore without the author having to do anything or pay anything.

They sent authors an email some months ago saying they were going to do this -- they made no promisies about which books would be selected -- and giving authors the opportunity to opt out.

It sounds from the email you got that your book has been selected for that process

If you are happy, just sit back and they'll email you when your book is on the iBookstore.

See here http://connect.lulu.com/t5/Email-Exclusives/ePub-Conversion-and-Distribution-to-the-iBookstore-Exclu...

[RolfParker]

Thanks for your response.

Dang

I already deleted the text so as to replace it with a better version. 

Meanwhile, now that I have it in ePub format, and it has been validated via epubcheck and Epubpreflight, Lulu's up loader rejects it claiming there were links without text. There are no links, so I am stumped on that one. I need to make a whole new post to cover that. 

[Knottpoetry]

I DON'T WANT MY PROJECTS PUT INTO ebook —  I don't remember getting any notice of this—

How do I opt out of it?  Please

[Ken Anderson]

If you spend some time reading the messages posted on the Forum over the last 4 weeks you'll find this subject has been discussed to death.

Adequate notice was given to all Lulu'ers.

 Where books have been migrated it is the chnaging of a PDF download to an eBook PDF as a separate project to the hard copy book. They are not EPUBs.

If you don't like the result you can just delete the eBook projects and continue with the hard copies. But you will not have a download option.