BOOK BUILDING TOOL: Approve My Book

If you used the Book Building Tool to create your book, this article explains how to approve your book for printing. If you did not use the tool to create your book and you uploaded files, submitted revised files, or had files transferred to your IngramSpark account, please review this article for help with approving an eproof of your book: Everything You Need to Know About Eproofs and Printed Hard Copy Proofs

Once you have finished creating the interior and cover files for your book, click the “Approve My Book” button in the top right-hand corner of the screen, previously known as "Finish Building". This will take you through the process of reviewing and approving each of your files for printing.

1. The first tab in the popup box provides you with simple instructions for reviewing and
finalizing your book files. The process of reviewing and approving your files is presented in
three simple steps:

• Review Book Information: review the information you set up for your book, such as the
  trim size and binding type
• Review Selected Exports: review and approve the interior and cover files you created for
  your book.
• Send Files for Manufacturing: the final step that sends the files into your IngramSpark
  account to be tied to the rest of the book information you will set up later (such as pricing
  and subject categories).

You will see the instruction to “Select exports and click ‘Continue’ to begin the review process.”
This refers to the checkboxes for “Interior,” “Cover,” and “Ebook” immediately below. The correct
checkboxes are filled in by default, so there is no need to change these selections. You will always
need to leave the interior and cover checkboxes filled in, but the ebook box will only be available if you
have previously chosen to create an ebook.
Click “Continue” to begin.

2. The Meta tab (short for metadata) is where you review your book’s information to ensure you
have set up your book correctly.

• Look closely through each selection under the “Book Information” and “Print Format”
  sections. These will affect how your book is printed and the information that is used to sell
  your book later.
• If there are any errors in this information, you can close this popup box and go back to the
  “Book Info,” “Interior,” or “Cover” sections to make the changes you need.
• If everything appears correctly, check the “I approve” box and click “Continue.”
  The system will now load the interior file for your book. You will see a spinning wheel with the message “Generating Interior for review. Please wait. Could be up to a minute.” Once your file
  loads, you will see the “Review Interior” link with instructions on accessing your interior file for
  review.
• Click the “Review Interior” link to review your interior file. This will open a separate browser
  window with a preview of your book’s interior. Look through this file carefully, as this will
  be the final file used to print the interior of your book.
• Once you have finished reviewing the file, you can close the separate browser tab with
  the preview to go back to the interior approval screen. If you need to make changes to your
  interior file, close this popup box and go back to the “Interior” section of the book-building tool
  to make the changes needed to correct your file.
• If your interior file is correct and you are ready to proceed, check the “I approve” box and
  click “Continue.”

You will now be taken to the review and approval screen for your cover. At first, you will see
a spinning wheel with the message “Generating Cover for review. Please wait. Could be up
to a minute.” Once your file loads, you will see the “Review Cover” link with instructions on
accessing your cover file for review.

• Click the “Review Cover” link to review your cover file. This will open a separate browser
  window with a preview of the cover of your book. Look through this file carefully, as this will
  be the final file used to print the cover of your book.
• Once you have finished reviewing the file, you can close the separate browser tab with the
  preview to go back to the cover approval screen. If you need to make changes to your cover
  file, close this popup box and go back to the “Cover” section of the book-building tool to make
  the changes needed to correct your file.
• If your cover file is correct and you are ready to proceed, check the “I approve” box and
  click “Continue.”

If you have elected to create an ebook, you will now be taken to the review and approval screen
for your ebook. At first, you will see a spinning wheel with the message “Generating ebook for
review. Please wait. Could be up to a minute.”

Once your file loads, you will see the “Review Ebook” link with instructions on accessing your ebook file for review.

• Click the “Review Ebook” link to review your ebook file. This will open a separate dialog
  box allowing you to either open or save your file. Please note: it can take several minutes for
  your ebook preview to load. Look through this file carefully, as this will be the final file used to
  produce your ebook. 
• Once you have finished reviewing the file, you can close the separate browser tab with the
  preview to go back to the ebook approval screen. If you need to make changes to your ebook
  file, close this popup box and go back to the builder to make any necessary changes.
• If your ebook file is correct and you are ready to proceed, check the “I approve” box and click “Continue.”

3. Once you have reviewed your files, you will make it to the final “Finished!” screen. Here you
will be given links once again to the cover and interior files of your book, but there is no further need to review the files at this point.

The last thing you need to do is click the “Approve My Book” button at the bottom of the screen. This
will complete the file building process and take you back to the IngramSpark title setup menu
to complete the setup of your title’s information.