IBooks won't open

Since a little before upgrading to Yosemite, I have been unable to open my iBooks app on my MacBook Pro. It will either open to the spinning beach ball forever until I force it to quit, or it opens then shuts down as soon as I try to tap a book to read.
Anyone else having this problem? Suggestions? I have run the Disk Utility for Permissions errors and the entire check but it continues to be a problem.

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
Back up all data.
Quit iBooks if it's running. Test after taking each of the following steps that you haven't already taken. Stop when the problem is resolved. Quit iBooks again before going on to the next step.
Step 1
Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, move the following item, if it exists, to the Trash:
          Cookies/com.apple.ibooks.cookies
Step 2
Delete this item in the same way:
          Preferences/com.apple.ibooks.plist
Step 3
Delete this item:
          Containers/com.apple.iBooksX
and move this one to the Desktop:
          Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService
Log out and log back in. The book library will be empty. Rebuild it by downloading your purchases from the iBooks Store and importing any other content you added. You may find the added content in the folder named "com.apple.BKAgentService" that you moved to the Desktop.

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