Each book within your catalog has its own settings page. This article helps you to understand the different settings available for both ebooks and audiobooks.
Tip:Some features described on this page are only available in countries or regions that can sell books on Google Play.
Learn more about supported countries for selling books on Google Play .
Locate your book settings
- Sign in to the Partner Center .
- On the left, click Book Catalog.
- Click the book title.
- Click Book Info
Settings.
If you make any changes to your settings, before you exit the page, click Save.
| Setting |
Description |
| Apply Digital Rights Management (DRM) encryption |
Prevents unauthorized copy or print of the book. Learn about DRM options for books on Google Play. Tip:When the option is on, users can’t download the book. |
| Preview limit |
Select the percentage of the book that users can preview. It shouldn’t be less than the minimum preview present in your agreement. |
| Copy or paste limit |
Select the percentage of the book that buyers can copy and paste. |
Advanced book settings
| Insert a blank page after the cover? |
If you didn’t add a blank page between the cover and the first content page in this .pdf or fixed layout file, to have us insert one for you:
Tip:This setting preserves the original left-to-right page layout. |
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| Allow preview before on sale date? |
If this book should be available for preview on Google Books before its on sale date, in the "About the book" tab, select Yes.. |
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Accessibility attestations
Selections
Adjustable text
- Unspecified
- Supported
Screen reader or dynamic braille
- Unspecified
- Supported
- Partially supported
Embedded audio
- Unspecified
- Supported
Advanced accessibility attestations
Selections
Image descriptions (alt-text) excluding cover images, decorative illustrations
- Short text
- Full text
- Recorded audio
Math formulas
- MathML
- LaTeX
- Text descriptions
Chemistry formulas
- ChemML
- MathML
- LaTeX
Navigation
- Table of contents
- Index
- Structured (headings, tables)
- Landmark
- Print-equivalent page numbering
Disturbing sounds
- Unspecified
- No sound hazards
- Sound hazard
- Not sure
Flashing content
- Unspecified
- No flashing hazards
- Flashing content hazard
- Not sure
Motion simulation
- Unspecified
- No motion simulation hazards
- Motion simulation hazard
- Not sure
EPUB Accessibility Spec
- 1.0 and WCAG level A
- 1.0 and WCAG level AA v1.1
- Unspecified
PDF / UA version
- PDF/UA-1
- PDF/UA-2
- Unspecified
WCAG version
- WCAG v2.0
- WCAG v2.1
- WCAG v2.2
- Unspecified
WCAG level
- WCAG level A
- WCAG level AA
- WCAG level AAA
- Unspecified
Is the book LIA compliant?
- Unspecified
- Yes
Sample length:You can edit the length of your book’s preview that's available to buyers. This can be a percentage of the total duration of each book or a specific duration in minutes. However, it can be no less than the minimum preview duration present in your agreement.
- Samples may appear on Google Play and other Google services.
- Before the on-sale date, no preview is available on Google Play or other Google services.

