According to Apple’s system status page, both the Mac App Store and Apple Books are currently experiencing issues. There are no specific details on the impact of the outage, with Apple only stating that some users are experiencing an issue with the services.

General features in the Mac App Store
According to Apple, the outages began at 12:15 p.m. Eastern Time. Only some users are affected, so not all users will experience problems with the ‌Mac App Store‌ or Apple Books.

Update: Apple says the outage was resolved at 2:40 p.m. Eastern Time.

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