Should i use flash to create/edit an swf interactive online book?

Hello I'm new to Flash; as Indesign limits what I can do in terms of sound for interactive swfs (specifically I need an mp3 player/controller that would allow a reader to control a number of sound files from any page of the swf), would flash be a suitable program for creating such a book? The aim is to upload the final swf to a website for viewing online.

Just a follow up if you don't mind... My main issue is with an mp3 file I placed in indesign, opting for a floating controller; the problem is that the controller is huge and the file stops playing on page turn, and I can't change either of these things from indesign. Can I make these changes in flash or flash builder while preserving the swf document as it is? Or should I restart the project from within flash? Ideally I'd like to use indesign to create ebooks with interactive audio, and edit them in flash to give them an interactive transcript feature that indesign can't do. Is this a reasonable workflow?

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