IBooks Apple ID Crash / iTunes Store "unavailable"

Hi,
A couple of issues here, and I'm not sure if they're both related - they both seem to do with the iTunes store.
1) When I try to access my account or make a purchase in iTunes via my iMac, I get a message telling me that, "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. the iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." I attempted to log out and log back in, but still get that same message.
2) When I try to add my Apple Id to iBooks, the program just seems to hang. The "wheel" turns as if it's trying to login, but nothing happens. It seems that it was attached at some point (before an automatic update) as older purchases are synced and I can open and "read" the books
I've checked my system preferences under iCloud, and it appears to be set up correctly (mail, address books, calendar all sync), and I don't have a problem making purchases on either my iPhone 5 or iPad 2 - only on my iMac. Here are the system specs:
iMac:
OSx 10.9
3.2 GHz Inetel Core i3
iTunes
11.1.3 (8)
iBooks
1.0.1 (281)
Thanks for any help / suggestions -
s

Hey Sean!
It seems like these issues could be related. Let’s troubleshoot the iTunes Store issue and see if the other issue resolves itself after resolving the iTunes Store issue:
Can't connect to the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1368
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

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