IBook not updating

We are a school and are using iBooks to distribute self-created textbooks. One of my colleagues wants to update her textbook however, iBooks on the iPad keeps opening the old version. When testing the same thing happens to me. We change the version number when exporting, to no effect. We are not using the iBooks store but instead are distributing directly to the students. The updated version of the book not displaying in the iPad. I tried to do it through an iTunesU course and had the same issue.
Any help is most appreciated.

Thanks for responding to the problem.
We are distributing by sending the .ibooks file directly to students. I have also tested it by having students download the book through an iTunesU course. Neither method has resolved the problem.
Yes, the students all have their own iPads and their own AppleIDs. At the moment we haven't given the update to students as neither myself nor my teacher colleague can get it to work.
What we want is to have the iBook updated, so that highlights, notecards, etc that the students have made will be preserved, but the new material is also present.
The problem isn't present if a student deletes the iBook and then downloads the new one. We're trying to avoid that. Instead we would like the new version of the iBook to replace the older version in the iBook app.

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