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Originally Posted by LauraBLough
I just downloaded Astri-bee to my phone. It does open fixed layout epub files but it doesn't recognize the audio parts and it doesn't seem to have an option to look at the book in landscape mode. My book is formatted so that it is shown as a 2-page spread, not individual pages, because many of the illustrations work best in a 2-page spread, and so it works best in landscape. Astri-bee only shows a portion of the page in portrait mode.
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I don't KNOW if this works--did you try Readium or Azardi, for a browser-based solution on PC? Your big stumbling block is that FF is, 99%, device-specific. In other words, each "retailer" (Apple, Amazon, B&N, KoboBooks) have created their own versions/specs for what FF is "supposed" to be, and how it's "supposed" to be coded. When we have a client that wants to go across the device spectrum, we make a mobi for Amazon; a NookKids' book for NookKids; an ePUB3/HTML5 for iBooks, KoboBooks and GooglePlay (now, instead of the former ePUB2 iBooks-specific coding with the page-flip animation).
I honestly don't know of any "FF" coding that works across all devices, or even a large number of devices. When I say, "devices" I also mean, software-based readers that are used on tablets or PC's or Macs. I suspect that Readium might be your best choice, but...I take it you're marketing this book from your own website, or an e-commerce website that isn't one of the Big ones, and thus, need to tell people what readers to download to read the book? Is that the situation?
The other thing is, even though we have/use INDD in-house, we basically still do FF Books by hand, coding-wise. It seems to be simpler, overall, than trying to square-peg-round-hole INDD into FF. That could, however, also just be me being old and inflexible. ;-)
Hitch