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Update Your Manuscript
Update Your Manuscript
Learn how to update your book’s manuscript and view additional resources on formatting.
Once you’ve submitted your updates, we'll review your book again to ensure it meets our content guidelines. Learn more about timelines for updating published books.
Books on your bookshelf have a particular status assigned to them, which reflects where they are in the publishing cycle. Some of these statuses allow you to make changes to your book, and others don't. Learn more about your book status.
Use the links below to help format your manuscript.
How to update your manuscript
- Go to your Bookshelf
- Next to the book you want to update, click the ellipsis button ("…").
- Choose Edit content
- Scroll down to the "Manuscript" section
- Click Upload Manuscript
- Find and open the file on your computer. Once the content completes the upload process, the message "Manuscript uploaded successfully" will appear and the conversion process will start. (This can take several minutes depending on the file).
- Click Launch Previewer and make sure your updated manuscript looks as expected
- Click Save and Continue.
- At the bottom of the Pricing page, click the publish button
Book status and timeline
Once you’ve submitted your updates, we'll review your book again to ensure it meets our content guidelines. Learn more about timelines for updating published books.
Books on your bookshelf have a particular status assigned to them, which reflects where they are in the publishing cycle. Some of these statuses allow you to make changes to your book, and others don't. Learn more about your book status.
Manuscript resources
Use the links below to help format your manuscript.
MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING RESOURCESUse this decision tree, to decide the best resources for your book. Learn more |
FIX FORMATTING ISSUESUse this resource to make sure your book meets our quality standards Learn more |
MANUSCRIPT TEMPLATESTo help you format your manuscript, we created templates in Microsoft Word into which you can insert your content. Learn more |
