Abstract: A sound-enhanced ebook is disclosed, the sound being presented to a reader of the ebook in accordance with the reader's progress through the ebook. The sound-enhanced ebook includes text information, and a plurality of sound events, each sound event being played in response to a reader's progress through particular text information associated with the sound event. Also disclosed is an ebook presenter for presenting text and coordinated sound events of a sound-enhanced ebook to a reader, the sound events being presented as the reader progresses through particular text of the ebook. The ebook presenter includes a text presentation module, a reader progress module, and a sound event presentation module, each sound event being associated with particular text information of the ebook, and each sound event being presentable in response to the reader's progress through the text information of the ebook as estimated by the reader progress module.