Linking & branching support by iBooks Author

I'm planning to publish a book that has a variety of internal tangents that the reader can follow (or not) at his/her choice, and I would love to publish it with iBooks Author, if possible. Anybody have any insights or know of any templates that could help make this happen? Thanks.

What will make this happen is a thorough understanding of links within a book.
Pick any template you like, add pages and text. Create links from one page to another. Initially, this will be more in confusing than it should be.
Good luck.  - Fabe

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