Formatting lost importing Pages to iBooks Author

I having a problem importing a text file from Pages '09 to iBooks Author maintaining some formatting.
My Pages document has some text in bold and some in bold and italics in addition to normal text.  Everything is in Arial font in Pages.
When I import the document into iBooks Author all the bold italic text shows up as normal text.  About 75% of the bold only text shows up as bold and the rest as normal.  When the bold words are in the middle of other text, the bold format is maintained.  When the bold text is at the start of a line it shows up as bold or normal after the import. 
Any help would be appreciated.

Check the styles in use on the Pages side versus the styles applied on the iBA side....
Test to see if they are reliably honored....

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