updated ibook in private iTunes u course not updating

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updated ibook in private iTunes u course not updating

I have "published" an iBook to my materials section of a private iTunes U course. All went well downloading the book to iBooks. I then updated the book, resaved it, and deleted the old copy from both iTunes U and iBooks. After re-adding the ibook to iTunes U and downloading it to iBooks, I keep getting the old copy in iBooks. Any ideas why?

I know I could probably rename the book and solve my issues, but I wanted to see if this was something I would come across every time I update an iBook.

Thanks!

Posted on Feb 8, 2015 10:04 AM

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patixa

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Feb 8, 2015 10:11 PM in response to Brian Frazee

I've seen issues such as this posted on the iBooks Author forum. Some tips I've seen there:

When copying a book, never use Finder; use iBooks Author's "Duplicate" item.
When re-publishing a title, always bump the version number.
Renaming won't help unless the book was properly duplicated, because iBooks uses a magic identifier written into the iBooks Author file.

Hopefully that helps solve your issue!

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