Byook offers up new reading experience for your smartphone and tablet. Founded by three professionals from the video game and digital entertainment industries, Byook brings books to life by incorporating graphics, animation and sound effects ~ truly a multi-layered reading experience for the digital audience.

Offerings from Byook include Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band, featuring the original text by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Little Fear by Miguel Vargas; and the young adult book, Tara Duncan, by Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian, based on a bestselling young adult series in France.

Three key points differentiate Byook:

• Every page of the Byook is enhanced with a graphical and musical rhythm that echoes the narrative rhythm of the text.
• Manipulation is very simple. The reader has to do only one thing: turn pages. No gadget interaction, no clicking, no shaking.
• Imagination is key. Although pictures are shown, the Byook suggests more than it shows by playing with the reader’s imagination through sounds and pictures.

Although very simple in its manipulation, several features are offered to let the reader go further. Artbyook is an embedded art book, filled with new pictures the reader can unlock by reading the entire story. The reader can also change the appearance of the protagonist in the Dress Room. A Collector’s Edition upgrade is also available, as well as story customization where the reader can connect his Facebook account to the Byook.

“We are huge fans of books and video games, and we wanted to bring what we learned from games to books,” said Manea Castet, creative director of Byook. “Byooks are just the tip of the iceberg for what we have planned for reading.”

Priced at $1.99 -$2.99 per Byook. For more information, visit byook.com.