Google Play is has a very annoying and difficult interface for uploading books for distribution to the Google Play bookstore. I pulled the .epub and .pdf file from Smashwords. The first thing I did was run an epub check online and it passed. I uploaded the epub first and I got this error:
Needs Action:
Internal processing error (001)
Quality of the PDFs or scanned hardcopy is too poor; please provide new content
So I uploaded a pdf and I got the same error:
Internal processing error (001)
Quality of the PDFs or scanned hardcopy is too poor; please provide new content
Frustrated, I deleted the book and started the entire process all over again. This time I only uploaded my cover and the pdf. This was around 5:30 pm est. Processing went through and the status went to unknown. I checked the unknown status and it's explanation was that changes to your book will take several hours to take effect in the Google Play store. I thought it was all over and waited. Woke up this morning and check everything and around 6 am my files are rejected with the same stupid error:
Internal processing error (001)
Quality of the PDFs or scanned hardcopy is too poor; please provide new content
My question is:
Does anyone know if there are formatting guidelines to upload to Google Play? This is so annoying! They won't accept my epub which passes 100%, I've added all of my payment and billing information correctly and that shows Active on my account. I don't know what's going on here. Should I upload the same pdf I used to upload to Createspace?
Needs Action:
Internal processing error (001)
Quality of the PDFs or scanned hardcopy is too poor; please provide new content
So I uploaded a pdf and I got the same error:
Internal processing error (001)
Quality of the PDFs or scanned hardcopy is too poor; please provide new content
Frustrated, I deleted the book and started the entire process all over again. This time I only uploaded my cover and the pdf. This was around 5:30 pm est. Processing went through and the status went to unknown. I checked the unknown status and it's explanation was that changes to your book will take several hours to take effect in the Google Play store. I thought it was all over and waited. Woke up this morning and check everything and around 6 am my files are rejected with the same stupid error:
Internal processing error (001)
Quality of the PDFs or scanned hardcopy is too poor; please provide new content
My question is:
Does anyone know if there are formatting guidelines to upload to Google Play? This is so annoying! They won't accept my epub which passes 100%, I've added all of my payment and billing information correctly and that shows Active on my account. I don't know what's going on here. Should I upload the same pdf I used to upload to Createspace?