You removed Books from iTunes completely???

While you can no longer transfer directly into iBooks, you can however still transfer to other Apps on your iPhone or iPad that support it.

With your device connected, click on its icon at the top left corner to bring up the side bar and summary page, and then click on File Sharing.

You can transfer files to apps listed there. Curiously though, while the Kindle App does show up in the list of apps and you can transfer a PDF to it. I have not been able to find it in the app on my iPhone afterwards. Don't have an epub book I can try at the moment.

Beyond that, you can transfer PDFs and epubs to apps that support it and they should be available in the apps on the iOS device.

Yes, it's MORE than annoying. Some Marketing IDGITS decided to consider this functionality 'feature creep,' and removed it. Personally, I deeply appreciated the ability to manage all my content for all my devices from ONE application. (Including the Apps, Audiobooks, Ringtones, Contacts, etc. for which they've now removed support.) And to do so with the ability to easily see all that content listed, to pick-and-choose which content I wanted downloaded, which I wanted updated, under what circumstances. Not to mention perform a FULL iPhone backup and restore with relative simplicity.

Read Phil0124 and Denise Woodcock's suggestions in their posts, for alternative (less efficient) approaches, but If you'd like to complain to Apple where they will actually see it, do so here and fill out the feedback form.

What if you don't use iCloud? The simplicity of just synching from computer to device via iTunes is now gone - dreading getting a new phone and having to wait and wait and wait for all the apps and books to download via my fairly slow broadband/wi fi connection. It's been bad enough waiting for all the books to download to my Kindle app in the past, to now have to add all ibooks and apps means setting aside a lot of time for downloading (I've a 256 Gb phone).

Hi, Do you have your PDF files in iBooks ?

If so,

Open iTunes

Plug in your device

Wait till you see the device appear under "Devices" below the "Library" group on the left hand side.

Click the small device icon to the right of the "Music" window on the top of the left column.

The top of the left column should now be called "settings"

In the middle you should have "Books"

Click on this should bring up the option to sync books.

In my case I'm a PC user (at the time of writing on this post I was just seeing a main list of items re the new iTunes update and not the section specifically for Windows) so when I click the device icon I am taken into the summary page about the device. My iTunes library has no way of connecting to the books or apps that I have, they no longer show in iTunes, including pdfs. I've tested out e-mailing an e-pub to myself, opening the mail on my phone and then adding it to iBooks but a lot of my pdfs are too big to e-mail and I'd like to avoid using iCloud due to the amount of data I have on each device.

I later discovered the simplest way is to connect your device to iTunes, leave it on the Summary page, then go to File Manager, copy the book/pdf you want to add to the device, go to iTunes and paste it and allow a minute for the book to appear. Only works when you are on the Summary page for the device.

Using the image above, you can select the 'Books' option under the 'On My Device' heading and add/remove books that sit within the iBooks application...

Personally I hate the fact that the function of managing books via itunes has been removed... But I use the process I have mentioned to manage epub files!!!

This is particularly annoying for me since I keep my itunes media stored on my nas rather than duplicating everything on my different machines.

A little surgery on osx is in order, rip out itunes and install itunes 12.4.3 its available as a download rip out iBooks from OSX although to be fair its a reinstall of osx to put it back if you decide you want it.

With 12.4.3 your music artists will have a nice jpeg instead of a pink microphone and with the removal of ibooks your books will not be stored as folders under ibooks and remain where they are. Of course that means itunes will tell you you can't read epubs on your mac but you can drag a book to any suitable ereader app.

its a shame as a reader ibooks is pretty good on the mac but the option of storing all books on icloud or just 1 laptop is not acceptable. If you have another partition or drive or virtual machine you can always use that for ibooks and use your main os for management.

I use ibooks on the ipad drag and drop in itunes works. You can even use Airplay to display the ipad screen on the apple tv (i can read that from across the room). I don't expect Apple to allow us any way other than their way in the future but currently you can still rebel!

You should be able to add your own DRM free books and PDF files via iCloud Drive.

Use iCloud Drive or iBooks to access your PDF files, ePub files, and books - Apple Support

OK looks like my post only relates to Mac users.

Finally some help for Pc users which also have iPads and iPhones and want manage books on this devices using PC!

Still it was stupid to remove the book tab from iTunes.

nope. Works in PC too. Thanks

Omg thank you so much for sharing this neat little trick Denise! I can confirm this method works.

-Noimus