Ghost Books on iBooks

I purchased some books from itunes on my pc. When it came to syncing my iphone with itunes it will display a front cover of these books (with the download progress bar on empty), but i can neither redeem the books, nor delete them. If i search for them in iBooks store it has 'downloading' greyed out, but has never made progress.

Hello dallentownsend
Try deleting iBooks app from your iPad and then download the app again to remove any previous books that were downloaded or attempted to download. Then just download your books purchased again.
iOS: An app you installed unexpectedly quits, stops responding, or won’t open
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1702
Regards,
-Norm G.

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Sir,
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Bikram Suri
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Sir,
I thought So too but then I went to Itunes Library and try and buy a single song from an album for $1.29. Now my Itunes Gift card balance is $ 7.10 as I mentioned earlier. it still did not let me buy and kept trying billing my Visa card.
Should I restart my PC and Itunes and retry. What do you suggest?
regards
Bikram Suri
[email protected]

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