Apple single edition rejection

Good afternoon,
We are getting hopeless here, as we had our app rejected for the 3rd time, and this time in appeal.
Didnt have any problem with our previous 3 app released last year. This one is designed as an interactive single edition magazine (look), with over 100 screens.
2.21: Apps that are simply a song or movie should be submitted to the iTunes store. Apps that are simply a book should be submitted to the iBookstore
First of all, we have extensive use of interactive elements as:
- Camera API used
- Slideshows
- Hi-resolution audios and videos
- Scrollable content
- Multistate MSO with hide and reveal buttons
- Revealing swipe image sequence
- Advanced inter-app linking
- Smooth scrolling screens
Also, some of our target markets are not even allowed to buy books...
J.

When you submitted your appeal did you explicitly call out the interactive elements in your application that go above and beyond a basic book? You provided a great list in your original post. Did you include that in your appeal, pointing out specific pages/places in your app where those interactive elements exist? The use of the Camera API in particular is helpful, since that isn't something you can do with iBooks Author and would preclude you from using iBooks and submitting it to the app store.
Neil

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Thanks Bob.
I haven't got any problems, this is just hypothetical at the moment.
Is there a limit to the amount of changes I want to make? Say I have built my folio, zipped it and placed it in the app in viewer builder. I see a couple of minor errors, so need to re-zip the folio and rebuild the viewer. Then I want to add another section (which requires another rebuild). Is that all doable? I'm just talking from real-life experience of digital publication development - I don't think our first viewer build has ever been the one we've pushed to Apple.

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Bob,
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2.3
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