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You may want to check out the solution at www.tapedition.com

They claim to be able to create a magazine newsstand app from a PDF and allows you to add multimedia stuff.
 
Check out Ed Dale's Magcasting. It is probably the simplest platform. Targetted not at publishers but people who want to self-publish. Mostly used by internet marketers.
 
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