iBooks in Maverick will not open / download

Thanks to the people who stated the fix. It worked.

What I find ridiculous is how something like this can escape the Apple's testing procedures. Did they not test iBooks? Something like this is so obvious it is beyond belief how it was not spotted.

Nicely done Femoca, a simple and efficient solution, thank you

This doesn't work for me at all. I followed the instructions and did "add to Library" for 1 PDF and 2 ePubs and I see them in iBooks but they don't sync to any of my other devices.

PDF files do not sync from mavericks across devices.

Not sure why your books are not coming across if you followed the suggested procedure.

Early adopters are a cheap way to do more testing! 😀

At this point, I am astonished that Apple would make such a change (moving books out of iTunes into an app) with so many problems. I understand their intent but given the vast number of issues posted here and not much "just works" with iBooks (outside of items purchased from iTunes) this software seems very BETA to me and should never have been released.

Deleting the "iBooks" folder did not solve my problem! I have no books in iTunes, but in my Macbook Pro it works fine and I can access the store, but in my iMac says "Cannot connect to iBooks Store".

Another very strange thing: when I access the "iBooks" folder through Spotlight and track its path, the folder "Lybrary" on my Home Folder is dimmed, and seems not to exist!!!😠

I still cannot sign in!! What a mess!! HELP!!

Hello,

here was my solution (after countless other tricks which did nothing) to reset my iBooks app in OS X and get my purchases from the iTunes store in there.

*** very simple walkthrough ***

1- delete all books from iBooks on OS X

2- delete all books from iBooks on iOS devices

3- sign out of iTunes for OS X

4- sign out of iBooks for OS X

5- sign out of iTunes on all iOS devices (from Settings/iTunes & App Store)

6- delete everything in /Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books on OS X

7- open Disk Utility on OS X and repairs all permissions

8- turn off/on all iOS devices, don't connect to iTunes yet

9- reboot OS X computer

10- open iTunes on iOS, re-enable iTunes & App Store account (log back in)

11- verify that nothing is left in folder mentioned in step 6 above

12- open iTunes on OS X, do the same

13- opne iBooks on OS X, do the same

14- add some PDFs in iBooks on OS X

15- download some previous purchases from iBooks on OS X

16- sync OS X with iOS using iTunes

Voilà. Step 15 did not work for me until now. Everything appears to be under control now.

Hope this works for y'all!

Peace out,

Dr S.

My problem, after using all the fixes above, is that, on my Mac Pro running Maverics, I see my iBooks Store purchases, they all have iCloud icons, in the corner, but when I try to download any book, I get " An unknown error has occurred ". I have successful access from my iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook Air, all running updated software, but not my Mac Pro.

All are using the same iCloud configuration, iBook store accounts etc....

Need a better error message.

Suggestions ???

Are you near an Apple Store? If so, make an appointmemt with the Genius Bar and see if they can help out.

Thanks for the suggestion, but the only machine that can't access iBooks, is the only machine that isn't portable.

So, I've reloaded Mavericks, I've deleted everything, I've even tried to copy the entire ~/Library context for iBooks from a working machine to the non-working, I've deauthorized machines, etc... and ...., no joy.

Interesting in that iTunes can't download the books either, but I'm sure that iTunes and iBooks are sharing the same libraries ???? I will abandon iBooks on my Mac Pro for now.

Thanks again

Thanks to Femoca - that solution worked. I spent an hour on the phone with an Apple Tech the other day, and whilst keen to solve the problem, it didn't happen. All good now

Be careful on femoca's advice. My books aren't showing up, I lost all of my PDFs, and am now trying to recover them. This is really testing my self-control!

I now have a new problem. I was trying to actually use iBooks and download a couple of books to read on my Mac.

The book starts to download (the progress bar moves until it gets almost to the end) then an error pops up "[book title] Failed to Download. To try again, select "Check for Available Downloads" from the Store menu.

Then I do this and get the error, "All Updates and Purchases have been downloaded for this Apple ID".

Tried unauthorizing and reauthorizing my Mac (this is a brand new mac) and no joy. This happens on some books but not all of them.

Anyone else seen this error?

Doing some more random checks, I seem to be getting this error for any books I bought *before* upgrading to iBooks/Mavericks (most of them). A couple of books that I bought *after* Mavericks are opening fine.