Does IngramSpark Accept AI Generated Ebooks?

Key takeaways

• Does IngramSpark accept AI-generated ebooks? Yes, if a person did most of the work or edited the AI's text in depth. Books made only with AI are refused.
• What does IngramSpark ask at setup? Whether AI was used for the text, the images or the editing, with a simple Yes or No.
• How do you credit AI? Add a contributor with the role "Assisted By" and the name "Generative AI", right after the person it helped.
• Which stores get the ebook? Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and, with a separate agreement, Amazon. Google Play Books is not on the list.

What does the IngramSpark AI generated content policy accept?

AI-assisted books, with limits. IngramSpark's content guidelines, checked November 12, 2026, accept books where AI only assisted or where most of the work is human. They also take books where a person reviewed and changed the AI's output in a "significant and material" way, and they refuse "works created solely using generative AI."

IngramSpark accepts	IngramSpark refuses
AI used "only in an assistive way," such as spell check and proofing	Works created only with generative AI
Books where most of the work is human	Works that break copyright law
AI text or images with significant human editing, credited properly	Content made by "automated means" or mass production

Text in the image: Content created using automated means, including but not limited to content generated using artificial intelligence* or mass-produced processes. *Generative AI guidelines. Acceptable AI Content: Generative AI that has been used only in an assistive way (i.e. spell check, proofing, etc...). Content or images in which the majority of the work has been written or created using human creativity and contribution. Works or images using generative AI (including translation) but with significant and material human editorial review and contribution with proper attribution. Unacceptable AI Content: Works created solely using generative AI.

A line higher on the same page bans "content generated using artificial intelligence," but its asterisk points to the AI guidelines, so it targets books made by AI alone. The rules make no exception for print: attribution "must accompany all works."

How to prepare an AI-assisted ebook for IngramSpark

Most authors arrive with notes, posts or a finished manuscript, and need an EPUB file (the standard ebook format) that IngramSpark will take. Built&Written covers the writing and the file: you add your material, approve a chapter plan, the AI writes each chapter in your voice, you edit every line, and you export the EPUB. It doesn't upload the book to IngramSpark for you and can't promise IngramSpark will approve it. You read and correct every chapter yourself.

Five steps get an AI-assisted ebook through IngramSpark.

1. Do the human work

What to do. Edit the parts readers judge first: chapter titles, examples, numbers, and the first and last paragraph of each chapter. Replace every general example with one of yours.

Why. IngramSpark accepts AI text only with "significant and material human editorial review and contribution."

Where Built&Written helps. Each chapter opens in an editor where you can change any sentence, and the chapters are written from your own stories and numbers. Our guide on writing a book with AI that still sounds like you goes deeper. How long it takes depends on the book.

2. Keep your originals

What to do. Keep the posts, notes, transcripts and drafts the book came from.

Why. IngramSpark can pull titles and, in serious cases, close the account: its help article on automated content says it "may, at its sole discretion, choose to cancel the products and close the associated accounts." Flags aren't always right. In July 2024, Ingram removed Thad McIlroy's book about AI in publishing with a "Catalog Integrity Notice," though McIlroy said only about 1% of it was touched by AI. He raised the issue and the restriction was lifted within days, Publishers Weekly reported.

Where Built&Written helps. The book is built from posts, notes and transcripts you already wrote, so the proof of your work exists before the first chapter does. Keep those files.

3. Answer the AI question and credit AI

What to do. At title setup IngramSpark asks: "Has Artificial Intelligence been used in the creation of this work?" You answer No, or Yes and tick Text, Images, Editorial Function or a combination. There's no separate box for a cover or a translation.

Text in the image: Has Artificial Intelligence been used in the creation of this work? No. Yes, Artificial Intelligence was used in the: Text, Images, Editorial Function, Text|Images, Text|Editorial Function, Images|Editorial Function, Text|Images|Editorial Function.

Three common cases:

• AI drafted the chapters and you edited them: Yes, Text.
• AI made only the cover: Yes, Images.
• AI only checked spelling and grammar: the rules call this "assistive" use, which IngramSpark accepts. If you declare it, tick Editorial Function.

Then credit AI in the contributor fields with the role "Assisted By" and the name "Generative AI." The order matters: the credit belongs to the contributor listed right before it, so put it under your name for the text, or under the cover designer for the cover.

Text in the image: In addition to disclosing use of AI upon title setup, proper attribution of creation using the contributor fields in the metadata must accompany all works. Author, Illustrator, Assisted By: Generative AI. The sequence of the contributors is critical. The Assisted By role is directly related to the previous contributor.

Why. "Proper attribution of creation must accompany all works." IngramSpark keeps the answer for its own records: "We are not actively providing this information to the market." So if Apple Books matters to you, add the AI note to your description too, because Apple asks for an "AI Generated by" credit on books with material AI-generated content.

Where Built&Written helps. You know which parts the AI made. If it drafted the chapters, tick Text; if you used the AI cover, tick Images. If you wrote the book yourself and Built&Written only formatted it, no AI touched the text.

4. Check the file before upload

What to do. IngramSpark's ebook FAQ sets the rules:

• The interior must be an EPUB 3 file of 100 MB or less. PDFs aren't accepted for ebooks.
• The cover is a separate front-cover JPG, 1873 pixels on the longest side and 1600 on the shortest, in RGB.
• No image, the cover included, may go over 5.6 million pixels, a limit that comes from Apple.
• Include the cover image inside the EPUB as well.

Run the file through EPUB-Checker by pagina, which IngramSpark recommends, before you upload.

Where Built&Written helps. When the book is ready, you download the files from the same place, ePub included. ePub and the print PDF for AI-written books come with the Entrepreneur plan and up; see pricing.

Text in the image: Ready to publish. Your book is ready. Every chapter, the cover, and the layout are done. Download my book. Print-ready PDF plus the full KDP package, ready for Amazon. ePub included. Want to polish it first? Edit chapters. Change the cover. Adjust formatting.

5. Choose your stores

IngramSpark sends ebooks to 38 retail and library partners, and its guidelines warn that "your titles may not be accepted by every channel." The stores most authors care about have their own AI rules:

Store	In IngramSpark's ebook network?	What the store says about AI books
Amazon Kindle	Yes, with a separate Amazon agreement	KDP requires you to disclose AI-generated text, images or translations; AI-assisted needs no disclosure
Apple Books	Yes, with a separate agreement	Material AI-generated content needs an "AI Generated by" credit
Barnes & Noble	Yes	AI text you edited afterward still counts as "AI-Created"
Kobo	Yes	Lists "Wholly or partially AI generated" as a reason it rejects books
Google Play Books	No	Not on IngramSpark's partner list

Amazon has one more rule: you can't send ebooks to Kindle through IngramSpark if you uploaded any Kindle ebook directly in the last 12 months, and you can remove Amazon from ebook distribution by emailing support. Our guide to AI book publishing compares the AI rules of six platforms, and our Amazon KDP vs IngramSpark comparison covers costs and print.

Final thoughts

IngramSpark's rule isn't against AI. It's against books with no real author behind them. Do the human work, keep your originals and declare what the AI did. See how it works.