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Control distribution
You decide where your mBoox is offered, how it is presented, what it costs and how the finished experience reflects your name and brand.
The next chapter of publishing has arrived
Words. Music. Image. Movement. All one book.
An mBoox™ preserves everything readers love about a book, then brings it fully to life with sound, video, animation, interactive features and immersive design.
Excalibur Productions presents
mBoox™
Books brought to life
In plain English
What Is an mBoox?
An mBoox is a custom multimedia-enhanced digital book. It can be a novel, memoir, family history, children’s story, presentation, catalog, guide, course or one-of-a-kind creative project. The written work remains at its heart, while carefully chosen media and interactive features deepen the reader’s experience.
A book remains a book. It simply gains a few more senses.
Independent publishing, properly independent
Your Book. Your Rights. Your Storefront.
For authors who own or control their digital publishing rights, an mBoox creates a premium edition that can be sold directly from the author’s own website.
Amazon and other retailers can be valuable discovery and sales channels. But your publishing business should not disappear because an outside platform changes a rule, removes a listing, restricts an account or makes a decision you cannot control. An mBoox gives you another path—one that begins and ends on property you control.
Use the marketplaces. Do not let the marketplaces own your entire business.
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Own the audience relationship
Invite buyers to join your mailing list during checkout or after purchase—with their consent—so the connection continues beyond a single sale.
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Keep more of each direct sale
There is no retail marketplace share on a sale made through your own store. Ordinary payment-processing, website, hosting and tax costs still apply.
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Keep marketplaces in their place
Use major retailers for reach and discovery while building a direct channel that cannot be taken away by the decision of a single storefront.
An mBoox can complement a Kindle or print edition rather than replace it. The ordinary edition can reach readers through established marketplaces; the mBoox gives loyal readers a richer reason to buy directly from the author. Excalibur charges to create the edition and takes no ongoing royalty from the author’s direct mBoox sales.
More than pages
What Can Be Inside an mBoox?
Every project is different. Features are selected because they strengthen the story, explain the subject, preserve something important or give the reader an experience print cannot provide.
Narration, Voices & Sound
- Full or selected narration
- Character voices and author commentary
- Music, atmosphere and sound effects
- Interviews, oral histories and pronunciation
Photography, Art & Galleries
- Full-page art and photographs
- Character and location galleries
- Letters, newspapers and archival documents
- Maps, diagrams and family trees
Video & Living Pages
- Author messages and interviews
- Demonstrations and documentary clips
- Animated illustrations and covers
- Subtle atmospheric movement
Interaction & Discovery
- Clickable objects and hidden hotspots
- Pop-up notes and definitions
- Quizzes, puzzles and related games
- Branching scenes and activities
Immersive Places
- Panoramic 360-degree environments
- Rooms and landscapes readers can explore
- Guided tours and interactive locations
- Coordinated sound and visual atmosphere
Useful Extras & Working Tools
- Timelines, glossaries and reference material
- Worksheets, recipes and printables
- Calculators, planners and checklists
- Bonus chapters and story-world material
One format, many possibilities
Which Kind of mBoox Is Yours?
Author mBoox
Fiction, Nonfiction & Specialty Books
Atmospheric soundtracks, character galleries, maps, timelines, bonus scenes, author commentary, animation and story-world extras can turn a familiar book into an edition available nowhere else.
Legacy mBoox
Memoirs, Tributes & Family Histories
Recorded voices, video messages, photographs, music, family trees, timelines, letters, recipes and personal memories can preserve not merely what happened, but how a life felt.
Business mBoox
Companies, Products & Professionals
Product demonstrations, clickable catalogs, branded presentations, video walkthroughs, training manuals, portfolios, investor materials and company histories can live in one polished publication.
Custom mBoox
Children’s, Educational & Singular Ideas
Narration, guided experiences, interactive illustrations, courses, fundraising pieces and imaginative hybrid projects can be built around an idea that refuses to fit inside an ordinary box.
Craftsmanship behind the curtain
It is not created by pressing a button.
There is no shortage of tools that can place media inside a digital file. There is a shortage of people who know how to make every element feel as though it has always belonged to the book.
An mBoox is planned, edited, designed, assembled, tested and refined by hand. Technology supplies possibilities. Publishing judgment decides which possibilities deserve to stay.
That judgment is what nearly six decades in publishing brings to the work.
- Choose the projectAuthor, Legacy, Business or Custom.
- Gather the contentManuscript, photographs, recordings, video, artwork, branding and supporting material.
- Select the experienceSimple elegance or a deeply layered multimedia edition.
- Design and productionStructure, typography, media, interaction and atmosphere are built into one coherent book.
- Testing and deliveryThe finished work is tested and prepared for website presentation, direct delivery or downloadable distribution.
See an mBoox in the wild.
The Quiet Treachery demonstration shows one possible combination of book design, atmosphere and interactive features. It is a sample—not a template and not the limit.
Questions authors ask
Useful Things to Know
Does an mBoox replace my Kindle or printed book?
It does not have to. Many authors can use it as a premium companion edition: keep the conventional book in familiar retail channels while offering the richer mBoox directly to readers.
What if my ebook is enrolled in KDP Select or Kindle Unlimited?
KDP Select requires the digital format of an enrolled book to remain exclusive to Amazon during its enrollment period. Before selling or distributing an mBoox edition of that title from your own website, review your current agreement and enrollment status. You may choose a different title, wait until the exclusivity period ends or ask Amazon how the terms apply to your particular edition.
What does the customer receive?
Depending on the project, the mBoox can be presented on the web, embedded in the author’s website or delivered as a self-contained HTML5 digital package that opens through a modern browser without requiring a special reading app.
Must every mBoox contain every feature?
No. Restraint is part of good design. A novel may need music and a map; a memoir may need voices and photographs; a business guide may need demonstrations and working tools. The book determines the technology.
Can I update it later?
Yes. Because it is a digital publication, an mBoox can be revised or expanded as the project grows. The method and cost depend upon the changes requested and the way the edition is distributed.
Who owns the finished work?
The author or commissioning client owns the completed custom mBoox subject to the rights in any third-party material used. Excalibur Productions charges a production fee rather than taking an ongoing percentage of direct sales.
Limited by design
Your book can be part of publishing’s next chapter.
Because every mBoox is individually built and tested, only a limited number of custom commissions can be accepted during each production period. When the current openings are filled, new projects move to the next available schedule.