Adobe Digital Editions or Readium

I’ve done this with hyperlink text. I’m uncertain what advantage a button offers. I’m assuming the question re “action” refers to buttons as the text alternative only requires familiarity with the hyperlinks panel.

I have published several image-heavy books. Reflowable will cause you endless headaches. At least in my experience a great deal of coding will be required to make it look anywhere reasonable. I just finished converting a print book with 1700 images into a reflowable ePub—no fun. Moreover, if you have an index it’s basically useless in a reflowable epub. Fixed layout epubs will be accepted by some distributors (including the big dog) who won’t accept pdfs. For my money, for anything but phones (typically demands a complete reformat), an interactive pdf is the best solution, albeit it has very limited direct editing capability. For tablets and larger screens I always recommend the pdf to my purchasers. Amazon has a textbook creator that produces their version of a fixed-layout epub from a pdf.

Cheers from someone about to face a winter hurricane.

You are getting some bad information. The problem of a book with that many images is that it’s likely going to have to be very expensive to cover the cost of the download penalty.
First, typical reflowable epubs aren’t suited to image-heavy books (I have 2 for sale but they had to be completely reformatted to include only 1 image per page). You can sell non-reflowable ebooks on Amazon by using the Textbook Creator (this requires a pdf, the result is essentially a fixed-layout epub). Of this type I have one title up and a second (1600+ images) soon to go. I haven’t explored all the outlets but most of the others will deal with fixed-layout epubs, just not pdfs. I’ve never tried to split a single fixed-layout epub or interactive pdf into sections with non-consecutive numbering but I can’t see a theoretical bar. The pages may be numbered starting with 1 in the pdf, but page numbers from the indesign master pages should be retained. Mostly I foresee a horrible problem with indices.

I’ve used Aaron’s solution successfully for epubs (at least on the devices I’ve tested) but it won’t survive conversion to kpf (Kindle). The only way I’ve heard that works for Kindles is the combining captions and images into a single image. While this works it has several drawbacks, not the least is the caption is no longer editable.

Paul

While it’s true that CS6 doesn’t support fixed layout, if your goal is to sell as a Kindle on Amazon you can convert a pdf directly via Amazon’s textbook creator. It’s basically a proprietary pdf format. I have one up and it’s listed as a “print replica.” It was prepared in CS6 as an interactive pdf and then converted using the Kindle fixed-layout converter.

Paul

Steve, perhaps you’ve already found an answer. Although I don’t intend to go any further, I did get a mobi to honour a text-anchor hyperlink. However, neither the Kindle export from InDesign or exporting to an ePub and then using Kindle Previewer succeeded. I made the ePub in InDesign and then opened and converted it to mobi in Calibre. The link then worked both in Calibre and Kindle Previewer. Some of my problems may have been caused by using an existing doc which was a short book chapter with other hyperlinks (I’m only doing conversions to fixed-layout epubs presently).

Paul

Played with this for awhile this AM but without success. Mobi, no matter how I create it, won’t honour the hyperlink. Sorry.

Paul