ITunes Producer Price Setting Question

Hello!
My company is working on publishing some books with iTunes Producer 2.4.
We have a series of print based books that we sell for $115. We want to sell our iBook version
of the book at $90. It is our understanding that if the iBook price is over $40, we can set the price
as we want. When we try to set the price, we are restricted to $39.99 in iTunes Producer.
How can we set our book price to $90? Are we missing/misinterpreting something?
Thanks!

Hello!
How did you resolve the problem? Can you state it more specifically?
I have same questions, too.
Thanks!
Chester

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