Apple Books app: "This app is only available on iOS. To get this app, search for it on the App Store on your iOS device."

It isn’t an error. You should remove the Books or iBooks apps from your library because they won’t be updated with a version you could sync to your device. IBooks started life as an standalone app, but has since become a core component of iOS, and thus can only be reinstated using the App Store on the device, not by syncing from iTunes. Likewise with Podcasts.

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What version of iOS is running on your device? I'm pretty sure that Books is a built-in app these days, so is updated when necessary when iOS is updated. If you'd removed it in error from the device you would search the App Store on the device for Apple Books to locate a version you can install. That won't transfer to iTunes.

tt2

Same here. Must be an error from Apple. I too use iTunes 12.6.5.3 to manage my apps on my devices. And I've got the same message. All other apps are updating just fine. And so has Apple Books in the past.

If you're still running iTunes 12.6.5.3 and trying to manage apps in iTunes then you're behind the curve. That build of iTunes cannot be installed in Mojave or the upcoming Catalina. Whether or not there will be a 12.6.6.x to support iOS 13 remains to be seen, but either way local copies of core apps that were once standalone are redundant. As is keeping hold of 32-bit apps if you don't have any device they would install on.

tt2

OK. I'll remove the app from iTunes. Thanks.

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2