Online Magazine Publication

Hi,
I am part of a team of people who are planning to launch an online magazine for sport horses in the next four to six months. I will be the lead designer and tech guy for the enterprise. However, I have never done anything quite like this before, and need some help.
I plan on designing the magazine layout in InDesign. I am not sure what software or service to use to publish this product. Any suggestions? We are planning on making a page flipping, picture, video and text magazine. Take a look at This is Fly or Catch Magazine for an example of what we like. These two publications are what we would love to end up looking like. What software or service would you guys suggest? Thanks a ton.

I have solution called eDocBrowser. With it you can export your magazine to SWF-format from InDesign as usual, with page flipping, buttons, hyperlinks etc... When you publish your SWF-files, you simply add couple of extra files into same folder and you have ready-to-use magazine with lots of extra features like zooming for instance. Whole user interface that comes with eDocBrowser is customizable. You can put your magazines logo there, you can change appereance ob buttons, user interface top- and bottom bar.... and you can put more than one SWF there if you like, several issues of magazine, or you can split large file to parts and export one SWF/per part. eDocBrowser links them together as they were one SWF file.
Single license of eDocBrowser costs 80 euros (aprx 100 dollars).
More versatile +eDocBrowser is coming too, there is also a text search, possibility to change resolution of SWFs (indesign normally uses resolution of 96ppi when you export SWF).
Demo magazines:
http://www.prepress.fi/eDocBrowser
This is actually dummy series of 3 SWF files, all of them exported from indesign
http://www.prepress.fi/e_news
This is series of two magazines, experimental text search is activated here, try word PrePress for instance, it gives you more than one hit... (write it like that, with capital P letters... search is so far case sensitive)
More info: http://www.prepress.fi/index.php?id=157

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Hi all,
Is there any way to develop online magazine web like below by
using action script or something :
http://software.newsstand.com/webrdr/live/Reader.swf?user_id=demousa&password=demousa&issu e_id=558269&livestat=live&lang_id=en&lib_server=library.newsstand.com&appnm=usaws
I know there is a way to solve this problem like using flash
paper, but I dont want to use desktop application...
All I wanna know is just how to convert newspaper PDF files
to Web-ready flash document by using PHP script or action script.
Any comment is appreicated.
Thanks in advance guys.
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