how do i edit the info of any book in ibook

Right, that functionality doesn't exist yet.

Apple listens if enough people complain. If you hate the current implementation of iBooks, send Apple feedback here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks.html

I haven't been able to find that functionality either, so I went ahead and used "Provide iBooks Feedback" to request that this be added to iBooks for Mac before heading to these discussions and finding that I'm not alone. Hopefully enough folks request this feature that Apple decides it's worthwhile to add in a future update.

-Mason

I agree - reported this as well and opened a thread to see if others had feedback.

I'm also upset at the loss of sorting functionality. Right now it sorts books by author's first name, not last, which is silly. What happend to the sorting fields that iTunes provided?

In addition to the books I downloaded from iTunes, I had well over 1,000 PDF books and magazines stored in iTunes. When I moved everything over to iBooks, it erased all of the author, date, and genre data I had diligently for these files over the past couple years. I changed a lot of the genres and added information to the metadata for my downloaded books as well. That's all gone too. So in total, I lost the information I had entered for more than 3,000 iBooks and PDF files. If they fix iBooks to add that functionality back in, I am going to cry if they can't restore all my metadata and I have to re-enter everything (and I am WAY too ocd to not re-enter everything).

@bookarts

exactly the same for me. This is the worst ever released application from Apple IMHO.

All my well kept and organised books and pdf's are now in disorder. Lost their category settings, their author settings and on top of all can't be edited in iBooks anymore and any further. No chance to edit wrong typings and to fill missing information (eg. authors, categories, ...).

I used to organise my papers (mostly PDF's) in iTunes like a document manager, the way I needed them on my various iOS devices and used them for work. I had groupings for my books like computing - networks, computing - guides, computing - iOS, computing - scripting, etc. .... now all is gone and lost. How am I supposed to organise over 1300 papers without any editing possibility (only sections can be assigned, no categories can be, neither can any information be edited/changed/corrected?

And on top of that all: HOW DO I BACKUP / RESTORE MY BOOKS from now on?

The books and PDF's are moved from the iTunes Library, where they were accessible and editable and where I could backup my whole media library on external NAS and storage. How will I get back my books/PDFs in the future if I setup my Mac Pro again from scratch or in case of a disaster (eg. failing disk)? Am I forced to use TimeMachine here?

There is no way to define by myselfs the place where the iBooks are stored on my system. No, they are all moved to some well hidden place into the users-library filling up my (until iBooks/Mavericks) system only SSD hard drive with hidden books. Is this the new strategy of Apple to try to make me under-age?

No editing, very limited organizing, no possibilty to define it's own storage-location, no backup/restore (no export/archive like in most other application like calender, addressbook, mail, etc. ....) what the **** is that?

I like most of Mavericks new additions but this here with iBooks is a mess and complete drawback for a user that liked to read his books on his iOS devices and was well organized.

And to be honest, I seriously consider to migrate back to OS X Mountain Lion just because of this ridiculous implementation of iBooks!

Same with me.

No editing possibility *****... At least you should be able to move books to different Catergories, change title, author and so on if you - as me - have manuals by different companies in pdf-format.

iTunes-editing was much better, but not perfect!

Same stuff here. Tried to edit the metadata, and was curious to find that there's no opportunity for that at all. And one more thing - I didn't sync books library from iPad with iTunes for ages, because it was useless. But now, if I want to sync them, iTunes threatens me to delete all books from iPad and replace 'me with ones from Mac. Both devices are on the same Apple ID, so why don't merge them? What should I do with that? Will all the highlights and notes remain, or disappear?

It's pretty terrible. All of my pdfs have reverted to their file name, and the author is me. Yeah, I made the pdf, I used the iTunes info to add the actual title of the work and the author. What a mess. I won't sync my iPad until this is solved.

I hate that the app just decided to move my files to some folder deep down in the Library. I like to edit these files!

Can't sort, can't correct a book's metadata; can't add information about PDFs. The Mavericks iBooks are pretty useless to me. Is there any way one can go back to the old version of iTunes?

Second this request. Unbelievable there is no screen or COMMAND-I to enter addtional info or make changes