Digital Publishing Suite

I work for a school district and we want to experiment with self publishing 21st century digital textbooks.  The combination of InDesign and the Digital Publishing suite looks ideal.  However we do not want to be locked into the Apple ecosystem.  The goal of the project is openness and a proprietary system like Apple is the opposite ofopenness.
So for $40/month we can get the Creative Cloud and get everything we need EXCEPT we are locked in to the Apple system for tablets and smartphones or we can spend an additional $500 a month for the professional Digital Publish Suite.
That seems odd to spend $500 a month to publish to an open platform.  Am I missing something or is there another way to go?
BTW we looked at eBooks but support for video is spotty at best on Android devices (are you listening Adobe Digital Editions?).

If you are only experimenting with digital publishing, you can build Android folios and view them through the Adobe Content Viewer without paying for distribution to the Google Play store.
Once you have built something that you actually want to distribute via the store, you will have to consider your licensing options, but until that live distribution is needed, there is nothing stopping you from experiementing with Android publishing.

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