IBooks Author won't open a .ibooks file?

I've been messing around creating a textbook, and saved the file to a folder on my hard drive. The extension of the file is .ibooks and I can see that the file is nearly 40 MB, so I know it's right (I put videos and pictures in it).
But now when I go to open the file, I get a dialogue box that says iBooks Author can't open the file?
What gives?
Andrew

Hi there - I have a question about file type and size, and maybe others might want to know about this too:
I'm finishing an ebook I've made using iBooks Author and when I check the file size of the iba file (using Get Info), it says it's 2.14GB, which has me worried as I know the iBookstore accepts only files under 2GB (as well as 2GB being slow to download).
But after reading some comments online I tried saving the file as ibooks, and in this format it's only about 240MB. Which one is the true file size as it will appear on the iBookstore?
I can't seem to open the file with the ibooks extension - is that understandable because, as you said, it's for viewing on the iPad, right?
I really want to hit "publish" this week. Thanks in advance for any replies!

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