Not impressed! No edit info, no library management!

Thanx Andy

But it's impossible to delete iBooks (for me), the system dont allow it.

@Gilloo

Use AppCleaner (free from freemacsoft.net)

Worked for me too, Kevin. iTunes now shows my books, again. Note that Calibre 1.8 no longer intuitively networks links to iTunes. I reverted to Calibre 1.6 which still does allow one to synch the Caliber Library to Books in iTunes 11.1.2. Thanks.

Sorry guys, it don't works for me !

spent 2 hours now and I just can't to make the tab "Books" in iTunes...

Try eveithing I imagine and nope...

Could anyone copy an paste the string "of iTunes Music Library.xml" where the line "books" is enabled, I'm going to paste just to see if it's work to enable the tab...

Very frustating you can trust me !😠

Let's just hope so far that Kevin's Solution doesn't break after the next few application and/or software updates.

Did anyone try just moving the service file and NOT deleting iBooks (just never launching it). Does it still work that way?

Too late for me as I already used appcleaner to delete it.

Thanks for the feedback

Just want to add my voice of discontent with iBooks. Most of my books were PDFs from various sources which I had to spend time labelling with correct category, author, title, publication info, etc, and now I've lost all of that. I want to try the solutions offered above, but at least two members have reported that they do not regain the Books tab in iTunes. Can anyone verify this? I need to get back my lost iTunes book library, and I need to be able to see it in order to continue organizing it.

Where exactly is "that buried iBooks directory" and how does one get to it? I searched around in Finder and could not locate it. Frankly, I didn't even know what to look for... the Mac equivalent of Windows Program Files directory? Sorry if my question sounds dumb. I'm a Mac newbie.

Kevin, you are a LIFE saver. It has worked and I have all my books back and on my ipad. When I upgraded itunes said I had to use Ibooks so I clicked the app and only 526 of my 3000+ books only flowed through. Now I have everything back and can choose which books I do and don't want to sync.

@bashir

That 'buried iBooks directory' is here, as written several times above:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks)

Kevin,

We followed your instructions and it worked but it is only a temporary fix. After you close out iTunes the program resorts back to the new way. You can't get to your books through iTunes again. Is there a permenant way to fix it? Please help, anyone

@Lovetoread55

it works very well on two of my Mac's. If you follow the steps exactly it will work. I followed Kevin's instructions and I figured out my steps described above worked very well too on a MacBook Pro either.

@bashir

... sorry, can't tell you for Windows and if it could work there as well. Only Mac here. I didn't read your question carefully. Forgive me ;-)

We did follow the directions. We will give it another try later. Worked fine until we restarted itunes. Did it work for you when you restarted itunes?

I restarted iTunes several times (approx. 10 times) since.

Julian,

Go to the finder on the on the lower left of your screen. (It's a little square with a smiley face). The go to Music under Favorites(left side), 0pen iTunes Folder, open iTunes Media folder, open Book Folder. Your books should be stored there. I think that is what you wanted.