Cut Audio Book Into Pieces?

I've got an mp3 audio book and it's one big file. When I play it on my iPhone and pause to do something else, it frequently returns to the beginning of the book when I resume. I was wondering if there's an app for the iMac that will automatically cut the book into a series of files of a length I select. Seems like I once had a pc program that would search for a blank spot every X minutes and cut the file into individual mp3's. If I had individual files like that, at least I wouldn't be so far away from where was.
This is not the right section to ask, I know, but since I'm typing I'll ask if this is normal behavior for an iPhone. I have an iPhone 4s updated to the current software. Shouldn't it be able to pause and resume from the paused place in the file?

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