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Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has launched a digital version of the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
According to the http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/choose-your-own-ad... target="_blank">Independent, Edward Packard, a creator and principal author of the series, has collaborated on a set of applications. The first in the "U-Ventures" series, Return to the Cave of Time, is now available on iTunes for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad priced $3.99.
Three titles have so far been planned, with the second story, Through the Black Hole, due out at the end of the summer, and the third, The Forbidden Castle, due in autumn.
Packard said: "Readers of the original Choose Your Own Adventure books had to turn to a particular page to make a choice. In U-Ventures apps, they tap the screen.
"Plot progression is seamless. Our developer, Expanded Apps, added sound, light, and other special effects, even music and alien voices, and I introduced a lot more variations and endings and special situations: for example, where what happens depends on whether the reader remembers a secret word."
The Choose Your Own Adventure children's books were first published by Bantam Books in 1979. Each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of protagonist and making choices that change the book's outcome.