Best Adobe program to make a coffee table photo book?

I am asking this in the Photoshop forum because making a book starts with editing photos first.

I am wonderg which is the best way to make a coffee table book?

I see a lot of online services where you upload your photos to them and they provide web apps which help in the process of creating the book.

I am assuming they take a hefty percentage out of the final book's profits also...

I have good editing skills and I think I can make the book myself in the Adobe programs and cut out the middle person.

I like working in illustrator but I have heard that Adobe has several programs that can create coffee table books.

I assume I could just use Microsoft Word or maybe Acrobat. In the end it is really only images and text for the most part, and some formatting...

I want this book to be special but I also plan to use some sort of low overhead semi free Amazon publishing. 

Something that, if people want to pay for a good binding they can but if they just want a paperback they can go with that option also. But I do want quality products available for those who want to go that way.

My question is... What is the best Adobe program for having coffee table book templates ready, maybe some clipart if I would choose to use any, nice semitransparent backgrounds, flourishes, borders, fonts, and would export in, I assume PDF would be the format that Amazon would accept?

Any help on this would be very useful.

I would have asked this in other forums other than Photoshop but I was unsure which one to ask this in.

Many thanks!