Interactive image & review widget issue-

Hi,
When I publish the preview on my iPad, texts, illustrations and videos are fines except 2 widgets :
Interactive image and reviews are going wrong, the area is a little bit blured and not interactive at all ! I' tried with and without pictures. I've try with new templates but nothing… allways same problem
I've recently download a ibook on the iBookStore using Review widget and I've got the same problem, it means to me that the problem is from my iPad side does someone has any idea ?
Thank you !

really simple :
I've suppress the iBooks App et re install it. It works fine.

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