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@JSWolf: In truth I have no burning need for the more precise control offered by iBook Author. My book is just a straight-on fantasy fiction piece. Once I finished writing and started looking into ePublishing, I mistakenly thought I had to use iBook Author to get something onto the Apple Store. So I downloaded the software and started using it, then read a bit more and realized my mistake.
However now that I have the software and have some time put into it I see how much nicer the book could be, at least on the Apple Store, without a lot of CSS fiddling. So, since posting my previous question, I've finished importing to and formatting in both Sigil and iBook Author. I now have the minor hassle of keeping the two versions in synch. I certainly could just use Sigil to produce an ePub for both, but seeing as I have another week or so before my cover art arrives, I'm spending my time (in a blatant procrastination ploy on my next writing project) creating fancier chapter openings in the iBook Author version; adding graphics, adding a few quotes that inspired the chapter, tweaking how the graphics flow when the iPad is shifted between landscape and portrait mode... It's fun. Not sure I'd do this every time I put out a book, but seeing as I timed things badly on my cover art, what else am I going to do? Write something new???
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