Why is iBook Author so rigid and inflexible? (splitting chapters)

Am I missing something here? iBooks is not intuitive to use and seems absurdly rigid. If I import a book from pages it throws everything into one chapter, and there's no obvious way to split chapters in two. Anyone have any ideas. Doesn't seem like this should be a difficult thing to do, but if there is a way to split a chapter, it's no obvious. Any tips would be gratefully received as this is extremely frustrating...

A Pages 'document' is inserted as one iBA 'chapter'.
Have you tried saving off individual chapters from your Pages book first, then inserting them independently?
Alternatively, you can use copy/paste for each chapter's contents from your Pages book after creating companion/empty chapters in your iBA ebook.
Is there some reason you don't just export/publish a standard epub via Pages and avoid using iBA at all?
As for chapter splitting in iBA, you can copy the specific chapter contents you want, then paste them into a new/target chapter, then delete them from the source chapter, but I'd caution that can be a quick way to disrupt the otherwise linear editing that iBA tends to be most comfortable with. I'd stick with copy/paste from the Pages document, instead.

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