InDesign 5.5 Digital Publishing
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It works great. You can publish to Android, iOS and Playbook.
The only problem is that it's very expensive for smaller usage and one-offs. You have to pay distribution fees on a monthly level plus a certain amount per downloaded copy. So it really makes sense for bigger publications.
The capabilities and output though are fantastic. You can do great things with it (panoramas, 360 views, videos, audio, photos and additional animations and overlays and so on). You can achieve even some more complex interactions if you are creative. You can even load full HTML5 code/apps right inside of it as it is utilizing things like uiWebView in iOS and the whole workflow within InDesign is simple and productive.
Definitely the best digital publishing tool for tablets around. Wired uses it. And you can do it in 2 different ways (as far as publishing goes).
1. You can publish it as an app/viewer that allows you to sell individual issues with it and it updates automatically because Adobe takes care of the distribution, updates and purchasing for you.
2. You can publish just one issue of your publication as an app without any subscriptions or multiple issues.
They just really need to make it more affordable for catalogs and stuff like that where designers like us who can't pay the steep price now can go and do this stuff for clients that will give it away for free or for promotional usage.
Last time I checked the price was like $700-$800 a month plus you pay 25k copies right away and the rest are .30 cents per download.
Or something like that.. look on Adobe's site, they have pricing too I think.