Charges for iBooks Author Developers

Dear All,
How do I charge my iBooks Auhtor Developers and How do I price my book ??
Here are the details below:
VOLUME: I have volume of about 20 Maths and Science Books each books has a pages of about (~300-375) which are Print PDF.
PROCESS:  Planned to recreate them using iBook Author by flowing page by page ( I don't see any better process to automate the PDF content to flow with in  iBooks Author).
ENHANCEMENT: Using best designer/content presenter to add widgets.
HTML 5:  Adding best interactivity function using HTML 5. 
ESTIMATED PROJECTION & PRICING: I usually charge Per Hr for programmer, developer and designer for which my competition charging in Pages; so this time I am planning to charge by per page(Print PDF) development - total page goes about 375 page X 20 books = 7500 Pages.  Whole project comes to around USD 93000.00 ( USD 12.5/page) in 25 Working days.
Please advice. Either I need to redefine Process or Pricing – Else the estimation is Okay.
And Kindly let me know the price for my Apple text books(375 pages[Math or Scienc]).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
ROCXY
Message was edited by: ROCXY

USD $12.50/pg for an interactive math/science book ($3750.00) seems low. An iOS App with that much content could cost from three to +five times that amount... If you are looking at a project with multiple books, it might be fair - round up to $100k.

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