Some books in iBooks won't open after iOS 8.1.3

I have an iPad Air and today I just updated to iOS 8.1.3. When I go to open ebooks or pdfs in iBooks, only certain books will open. When I press on the icon after about 10 seconds a little the sunburst icon in the middle appears, cycles through and then disappears.  I've tried restarting my iPad several times but I'm still encountering the same problem.

I updated my iPad mini 2 this week to iOS 8.1.3.
Unfortunately, all PDFs and many EPUBs disappeared from iBooks.
Next i realized, that iBooks content is not saved in iCloud as part of the backup.
For me, iBooks with EPUB and PDFs was a main reasons to buy more Apple products. Loosing them during an update is such a disaster.
Hope, that Apple will solve this ASAP and spends a tiny fraction of the last quarter earnings into software quality ...

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