Thanks for the help everyone. I was using 1.4.x, not the 1.0 the book is based on. After fooling around with the commands for a bit, I was able to figure out that the problem was in the INSTALLED_APPS section - I included 'mysite.books', but the new way to do that is just 'books'.
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