IPad iBooks is installed, but says I need to install iBooks to download a sample or purchase book
I have been using iBooks on my original ipad since it came out. Now, when I go to the store in iBooks and try to download a sample in iBooks or purchase a book, it tells me I need to install iBooks! This just happened in the last few weeks (since about early to mid-June 2011). I have tried deleting iBooks and reinstalling, and still get the same error. iBooks still seems to work normally on my iphone4. What else can I try, short of resetting the iPad to factory settings?
Scanning this forum, it seems that at least a dozen people have experience this problem. I am one of them.
I tried all the usual approaches to fix this: re-installing iBooks, cold reset of the iPad, resetting and restoring the iPad (very time-consuming) and none of this works.
Here is what you need to try: figure out when the problem first starting happening to you, and then delete any App you have installed since before the problem first appeared. I had the problem start about 4 days ago, so I deleted all the apps I had installed in the past week. THAT FIXED THE PROBLEM!
Then I started re-installing the Apps, one by one, until the problem came back. In my case, it was just one App, the mere installation of which causes the problem with iBooks on my iPad. The App in this instance is called OnSong, and I downloaded it on May 15 when it was temporarily free at the App store and had just been released with bug fixes.
My opinion is that the problem is not unique to OnSong. There are probably other Apps that can trigger this bug in the iOS. But I think the strategy of removing Apps that were installed at about the time the problem with iBooks sample downloads occurred, is a good approach for anyone with this issue to pursue.
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