DPS App to SOMETHING Dilemma...?!?

I created an awesome app with InDesign DPS tools for my company for use on the ipads in our centers to give customers free information - no revenue involved. Then, they wanted to evolve it into a quarterly interactive magazine - no big deal. But now, when it is all done and almost ready to publish, they tell me that because there is no funding for the publishing from InDesign, I have to rebuild as an ebook in ibook Author to go on the bookshelf for the ipads. So, I say I can use my CC membership and we can use the company's developer license with Apple and there is no cost involved. No dice. And they are not receptive to using the Adobe Content Viewer b/c "it would be too hard for the customers to figure out". Is there a way for me to export the folio as SOMETHING - either as an app that is NOT going to go through the itunes store (b/c we don't want to distribute it - we just want it to sit on the ipad and be a resource in the center) or as a free single magazine or as an ebook that is not a boring epub? anything? PLEASE!?! I can't stomach starting over in ibook author and losing my DPS work and I don't get why there is no way to get the files for use - there has to be something I am missing or some format I don't know about. Thanks in advance!

The problem is, that if building and distributing apps without Apple's intervention would be possible, then everyone could start spreading apps all over the iOS world. Sounds great for developers with good and reasonable intentions, and for users with a healthy appetite for downloading (and paying for) their apps and its media.
However, there are also many developers and distributors who have different plans, less safe ones...
And Adobe prefers to maintain their form grip on the folio, at least for now and a long while, I guess. They could 'free' the folio file format and let publishers spread their own folio's (through websites, sharing services, even emails and memory sticks). And partners and third parties could develop viewe software (apps for mobile and desktop) to produce, distribute and view folio's. But Adobe chooses not to do so - not yet.
In fact, the same was true for the PDF format. In the early years Adobe prefered not to 'open up' the PDF format, so they could control and steer the format in ways they found necessary.
In conclusion: apart from HTML, there's actually no file format or technique that can be used for all purposes and all platforms. If any other such format will ever become available, is doubtful. But we'll see what happens with the folio. (It's already taking careful inroads to the web and desktop platform).
So what your managers and directors are looking for, is a Holy Grail they won't find. Hopefully they turn to you again to come up with better ideas.

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