Book preview in PDF

Hello!
I was wondering if there's a great way to automate or somehow easily undergo the process of creating a preview of a book?
Much like this example: http://www.theideabook.org/pdf/Ideabook_preview.pdf
Is it really just a question of creating 2 pages side-by-side in (for instance) Illustrator, plug in the content, and then save the composed artboards as a PDF?
Or is there maybe a better way of accomplishing this task?
What I need to do is just to create a pdf document that appears like a book preview, with pages side by side (instead of the default downwards scroll direction).
Thanks!

These are "readers spreads". Prepress shops will use imposition software, but frankly I'd say that this book preview is a bad idea. In Acrobat you can set a regular PDF to display as readers spreads, without any effort, and without messing up people's ability to print pages, etc. See under Document preferences for open options.

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