IBooks on iPhone shows collections but no books

I am trying to sync iBooks from iPad to iPhone. On iPhone shows the different collections groups I have on iPad but not one book download shows on iPhone. Know why?

iBooks can only be synced via iTunes.
Collections sync via iCloud but the actual non-iTunes content (PDFs, etc...) does not.
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