Can you include ibooks in RSS to PSM?

Hello all
We've tried to add an iBook to one of our Oxford iTunes U RSS feeds and have been surprised to discover it's not working for us in the same way that .epub files do. We are getting the unsupported resource extension error (text below). Could anyone tell us whether we: a)Should be able to publish ibooks in the feed? & b) Is there a mistake in how we are presenting the resource in the RSS?
Many thanks
Carl.
Error text:
iTunes U could not update the content because iTunes U encountered an unsupported resource extension in the URL (http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/internet/geographies/geographies.ibooks?CAMEFROM= itunesu) specified in feed (http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxitems/generatersstwo2.php?channel_name=internet/geogr aphies-video&destination=itunesu). Until the issue is resolved, iTunes U continues to display the last downloadable version of the content. Verify that the feed resources contain only approved content types (mpeg audio, mp4 video, QuickTime video, PDF, mp4 audio) with appropriate file extensions (mp3, mp4, mov, pdf, m4a), and then try again.
Carl Marshall
Podcasting Team - Technical
Learning Technologies Group Services

Hi Erik,
This doesn't make sense to us particularly. Course Manager provides a way of wrapping any resource on the iTunes Store (i.e. including iTunes U content), and that "wrapper" can then be published in the iTunes U section via the Public Site Manager webapp. We understand that Course Manager can act as a repository for ibooks, or they can be published to the iBookstore - but this doesn't explain why we can't have ibooks in our regular RSS feeds which already contain a mix of document types (including epub, even though that's not listed above as a valid option). We know the iPad is happy to open the ibook from visiting the RSS feed directly, so the only limitation seems to be on the PSM parsing....
Which brings me back to the two questions asked: Should we be able to do this, and have we made a technical error in how we've done this?
Thanks
Carl

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