Run, don't walk, to get Flowboard for your iPads. It's a free app that lets you easily put photos, text, and video into a presentation-quality 'book'. I made a photo book with text using photos I put in Dropbox and the Photo Roll, in very little time.
I still need to look at how it publishes, but the Flowboards you create do not have to be public and can be shared via URL.
Howard