I didn't think it was possible to develop something more horrible for book management than iTunes but clever developers at Apple squashed my pessimism and came up with iBooks. Since I have to turn in my company laptop I've been working on resurrecting my old MBP. As part of the the process I upgraded it to Mavericks which by default comes with iBooks. Once I ran out of invectives, a quick search yielded a way to wipe out the abomination of iBooks off my computer and to return control of my ebooks to iTunes.
Since I'll have to repeat the process in a couple of weeks, when my new laptop is scheduled to arrive, ( here are the instructions: )
Since I'll have to repeat the process in a couple of weeks, when my new laptop is scheduled to arrive, ( here are the instructions: )