Saving Indesign book as a preview image

Hey everyone,
Can anyone help me recreate what is going on in this image.. I have a book that I layed out in indesign and I want to save it to look like this image for my portfolio site but I dont no how to execute this. I am not sure if it is something you can do in indesign or if it is a pdf thing.
I have search everywhere..
Thanks!!
Wesley

There ar exisitng several CMS and Plugins which can perform this automatically. But a workaround would be to set up a document where you place a complete exported pdf page by page side by side once and design this page as you want to.
For every other issue of the magazine you need only to relink the pdf.
If this would not be a book but a single file you could also place the indd directly without creating a pdf before, also possible to do it with the indd of the book file, but I suppose that it would cost more work to relink it with every issue.

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excuse my lousy english...
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To make sure we understand:
I change for example a picture in b / w it remains in the small preview images bunt even though the *great View Erbild s / w is*.
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