REPOST: Making a digital magazine using Indesign, How to publish it without purchasing DPS?

Hi there,
So I have posted this on the Indesign forum, bit have been told to repost the question here.
I am creating a Digital Magazine for a school project. It is getting marked by a marker and they obviously need to see how the magazine works etc.
I am not looking into purchasing DPS just for this project. I just want to find a way to put the magazine on the iPad so its fully functional, I am in no way looking to publishing it to the App Store or anything like that.
Someone suggested I still download the Adobe DPS tools installed (Folio Builder and Folio Overlays).... (Does that require me getting the Digital publishing suite?)
Or I publish it as an Interactive PDF..
My final question is how would I go about doing both?
Thank you.

Before you start I suggest you to understand the difference between Apps and documents. An App It's a self contained content that could be delivered only by the marketplaces (iTunes, GooglePlay, Amazon). If you choose this solution you have to respect their policies.
If you choose a document such as a PDF you are free to deliver it as you prefer, by your store, by your network, via mail, etc.
To read a document you need an App such as a Acrobat Reader.
In between the document and the App there is the device and the operating system. That's why It's not so easy to mantein all the interactivity that you can potentially place in a PDF when you read on a device such as iPad.
So we can define many scenarios:
- Deliver your content using a PDF - lower compatibility with interactivity, no adaptive layout
- Deliver your content using ePUB - lower compatibility with interactivity, adaptive layout
- Deliver your content using an App created with a solution like the DPS - high compatibility with interactivity
- Deliver your content using the developing - everything your target devices can support
In my opinion I suggest you to adopt a CreativeCloud for education (very cheap) so you can deliver your content in all this ways than choose a good consultant :-)
Ciao
Andrea Spinazzola

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This is Sean Smith. Marilou who wrote the original post works for me. Bob if you could point us in the direction of details you need I’ll ensure we provide the additional information as soon as possible.
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