IconAuthor is a powerful, high-end product that costs, literally, thousands of dollars. What I and most people need is an affordable application that lets me concentrate on multimedia design rather than implementation. This is where NeoN StoryBook comes in. StoryBook has all the tools you need to make a respectable kiosk, demo, even training application. StoryBook's predefined tools allow you to set regions on your application's display for text and graphics, animation and sound.
Installation is simple and quick.
After watching the demo, I opened up StoryBook and began working immediately. You design an application in much the same way as you would storyboard it, by putting all the pieces you want on the screen the way you want it to look, then assigning actions to the pieces you want to be interactive. You can add text, graphics, just about anything you'd expect from a multimedia application. Multiple screens mean multiple pages. StoryBook uses whatever fonts are on the system running the application, so if you're using an uncommon font in your application it may be swapped out and replaced by something less suitable when running on a system that doesn't have it.