How to move an item from the main iTunes library to Audiobooks?

I have several audiobooks copied into my iTunes Music library. They're listed as "Books & Spoken" and each chapter is a separate item in the library.
I haven't been able to copy these audiobooks into the "Audiobooks" subcategory of the Music library in iTunes. How do I do that?
I have tried highlighting an item, right clicking and selecting "Get Info", and changing the Genre in the Info tab, but there isn't a selection for Audiobooks, so that didn't work.
What makes iTunes decide if an item in the Music Library is an Audiobook or not?
Thanks.

OK... that works for the audiobooks I already have in my library. Right now I have to copy the files into a folder on my desktop, change the extension manually for EACH file of the book (some have hundreds) to .mp4b, then reimport the book into the iTunes library. This is gonna take a while!
Now, how do I ensure that the new audiobooks I import will have an .mp4b extension to the filename? I know how to import them as AAC.

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