Difficulty importing Pages document into iBooks Author

Maybe I'm doing something wrong--but when I insert a Pages document (made up of 16 pages of images), iBooks Author collapses the 16 pages of images into a single page, adding the additional pages as blank pages. Same thing happens when I insert the file as an MS Word file.
Shouldn't it be easy to insert a Pages into iBooks Author?
Ideas?
Thanks...
sc

Should be....but....there is no simple lever to pull that amounts to a fitz-all recipe.
Experiment with different iBA templates using copy/paste from your source.
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