How/where do I add subtitles? Is it in the abbreviate title? If yes, isn’t it a bit of a misnomer? It can actually be longer than the title.
I don’t think Scrivener has a field for that. In my experience, it’s easy enough to tell KDP and other publishers the subtitle.
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Abbreviated titles are often wanted for running page headers. So, wherever you are seeing an abbrev title field, maybe it is for that.
right. I agree. However, in that case, you will need an additional field. 
Where do you want the subtitles?
If it’s for the entire book, then the easiest thing is just to write it verbatim on the title page, which is normally formatted ‘as is’.
If you want them for Part / Chapter subtitles, then the normal way to introduce text between the Chapter title and the content is to add the subtitle to the text of the Chapter document in the binder – it’s not usually used as the actual content of the chapter is in the subdocuments.
Then you amend the format of the relevant Layout (whichever one you’re using for Chapters) in Section Layouts, making sure it’s one with Text included:
Does that help, or are you trying to do something different?
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Just on the front page of the book, under the title.
Then can’t you just write it on the Title Page itself?
Forgive me, I don’t really understand what benefits having a separate field for this would bring.
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I think that for the front page, since it would already involve using a separate section type & layout, @brookter is right, and there is nothing lost by “manually” designing your front page using Header styles.
Title, sub-title, everything.
Faster even, most likely.
Just use a section layout for which you’ll have the title field unchecked.
Have it handle the whole as body text.
The formatting of the section layout won’t mess anything, since you’d be using (header1, 2…) styles.
And you might even just disable the text formatting override for it, since there is no need.
Plenty of options, but I believed this one to be the most straightforward and efficient.
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