The creator of the popular TV show CSI says he has created a new format — the “digi-novel” — that will launch a “revolution in publishing for the YouTube generation.” Anthony Zuiker’s Level 26: Dark Origins, will be published by Dutton in September as the first digi-novel in a “series in which each book will be supplemented with 20 videos, or ‘cyber-bridges,’ featuring actors playing characters from the novel,” reports Bob Minzesheimer in this USA Today report.

The series will focus on detectives trying solve a serial killing — you thought it would be about making art? — and the way it works is that “After every 20 pages or so, readers will be able to go online to watch a three-minute video.” The videos, Zuiker says, are meant “to embellish the novel and drive readers to the next book.”