Why won't the book I purchased on my iPad finish its download on my iPhone ?

Hello Megolego03,

You may want to remove the book's entry from the iBooks application, and then attempt redownloading it.

iBooks: Tips for managing your iBooks library and storage on iOS devices

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5544

Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

Cheers,

Allen

How do I "remove the book's entry"? The Delete button won't work either - with or without "Sync Collections" turned on. I have also tried deleting and reinstalling the iBooks app ... to no avail. The books show up as "Downloading" again. I am using an iPhone 5.

I am having the same problem and have tried the same things you have and still not working. It's very aggravating. I have my phone and itunes updated and can't access books that I have recently purchased. Phone indicates they are downloading but it never completes the download. If anyone can help please let me know. Thank you.

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Just downloaded the Kindle reader. I prefer the iBooks reader, but not being able to access books across devices is too much of a limitation to continue using iBooks

I've got the same issue, a book just stays greyed out and never completes downloading, did anyone find an answer to this?

Go to the App Store app, go to the purchased tab on the right most side. The book you want should be there. Click on the cloud on the right hand side. It should download the book to your phone. That's what I did and it worked for me.

Individual Books don't appear in the App Store purchased list only in the iBooks purchased list, you must be thinking of a different problem.

Right. go to the iBooks store, click on the purchased tab, the book should show up. Just click the cloud and it should download to your phone.

The whole point of this post Epet1401 is because that doesn't work, we all know how to download iBooks the problem we have is that they aren't downloading when we follow the correct way of downloading them. you may want to re-read from the top of this post to see what the problem actually is.

I was having the same problem. I'm just sharing what worked for me.

I'm having a similar problem. I purchased a book yesterday using my iPad from iBooks. On the screen it said it was downloading but never finished. It looks like it never even started. In my library it's ghosted out. I couldn't delete it or edit it in any way. It was interesting to see that it downloaded to my iPhone and to my MacBook Pro but not to the iPad where I made my original purchase. I am certainly looking forward to some direction in regards to how to complete this purchase.

I am having the same problem. Two books I purchased will download to my MacBook but not to my phone. The books are ghosted out on the phone, and I can't select them or delete them. I spent well over an hour with Apple support and got nowhere.

I reported on not being able to download a book that I purchased to my iPad. I could not find a solution to my problem so I decided to reboot my iPad. It worked. Following the reboot I was able to download the book with no problem.

Try syncing it to your itunes account on a PC or Imac - I solved the non-downloading book problem by just syncing the individual book and hey presto - the book appeared!