The Living Book
Every form a book can take. One purchase.
The Living Book is the complete edition of a Consilience title: the files, the voice, the conversation, and the direct line — bundled once, growing from then on.
A book used to stop at the page. The press’s books are structured from the first draft, so the page is only one of the forms they can take. The Living Book is the whole set: the quiet page, the spoken chapter, the answering chat, the portable bundle, the endpoint your agents can query. Buy the title once and every form it can take comes with it.
And it keeps growing. When the press cuts a new narration, a new translation pass, a new form of the book, the Living Book absorbs it. The copy you buy today is the smallest it will ever be.
Inside the bundle
What one purchase holds
The download edition, yours to keep on every device you own. Kindle, Kobo, the shelf you already trust.
The fixed-page edition for printing, quoting, and archival. Bundled here, never sold on its own.
The whole book read aloud, chapter by chapter, as a ZIP of MP3s. Yours to keep, yours to carry on any walk.
A chat that answers against the text itself, with ten million tokens of fuel. Ask what the Odyssey says about hospitality; the book answers from its own lines.
The book as plain, structured files — the same text the press reader renders, zipped with its config. Open it in your own tools. It belongs on your disk.
A hosted MCP endpoint for the book. Three lines of config and your agents — Claude, Cursor, whatever you run — can read it, search it, and cite it.
The first day
The seven-minute walk
The EPUB and PDF land on your devices. The book is on your shelf already.
The narration starts. Chapter one, in a voice built for the book, while you make coffee.
You open the Folio — the hosted reader — and the book is waiting where the audio left off.
You ask the book a question. It answers from its own lines, with the passage cited.
You download the MDX bundle. Plain files, your disk, your tools. No permission needed.
Three lines in your agent’s config. The book is now a tool your agent can call.
You go back to reading. The book keeps growing — new audio, new forms, same purchase.
The choice
EPUB, or the whole book
The EPUB
The file itself, at the price a paperback chapter costs. Yours to keep, on every device you own. Reading online stays free — the EPUB is for the shelf you already trust.
The Living Book
Everything above: EPUB, PDF, the narration, the conversation with ten million tokens of fuel, the MDX bundle, the direct line. Priced at a small multiple of the EPUB, and it grows.
For the agents
Three lines of config, and your agent reads the book the way you do — chapter by chapter, with citations.
Every Living Book ships with a hosted MCP endpoint of its own. Point Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client at it and the book becomes a tool: list its chapters, read them, search its passages, ask it questions. The endpoint answers from the press’s own structured text — the same files the council graded.
The first titles
Coming soon to the paid shelf
The Living Book opens on the paid titles first. Leave an email and the title you want, and it arrives in your inbox the day it ships.