Banner Books.com started the whole Mac&Murray Multimedia Online book publishing empire. This was a brainstorm while on a company retreat in Alaska at the corporate log cabin in the remote areas of the Alaska Range. There, there is no running water, no electricity, no roads (you have to fly a traildragger bush plane into the cabin) no stores (although visiting hunters leave many a hunch of caribou with us, while enjoying our extended hospitality to stay in the lower cabin.) and no communication devices. (We now take a satellite phone with us and have a contact person to check in with.....what "whooses" we have become in our old age.)

While spending the night in a tent 3 miles up the glacier from the cabin, during a Northern Lights "storm", Barry and Bobby Murray waxed elegant about the coming millennium during which a new way to publish great books with banner ads along the bottom navigation strips was born.

Barry already had written a number of books, to differing degrees of success, so they reckoned, why not give them away for people to read for free and receive revenue from the banner ads?

On returning to the office the "die had been cast" and away they went to explore this new territory. At 12:01 on January 1st 2000 they simultaneously pushed the mouse to upload Banner Books.com to the Internet. And the rest is history, as they say.

But wait there's more! Mac&Murray Multimedia will soon be publishing these, and other books as downloadable "Fusion Books". Wait until you experience these new style books. You won't believe how far books have come in the 500 years since Gutenberg.

I Want A Horse.org was originally published as a print book with 3 printings. It includes a printable Soundness Evaluation Guide to take along with you as you research a horse to purchase.

The idea for this book came about as Barry Murray, it's author, spent a number of years as a ferrier (horseshoer) and was asked so many times, by young pre-teen girls, to help them pick a horse to buy, that he wrote this book especially with them in mind.

We know from our statistics that this is still a timeless and valuable book for young and old alike horse lovers.

Taffy Neighborhood.com is a story about a Border Collie befriending a neighborhood where she lived in the local park. The star of this book was the Murray family's pet and Barry Murray, the author, as a free-lance photographer, took hundreds of photos of Taffy. He set about to incorporate some of those photographs with hand drawn cartoons, added a heartwarming story, and Taffy Neighborhood was conceived.

The real Taffy spent many years with the Murray family and enjoyed many of their adventures. Her favorite thing was to ride in the helicopter with the Murray's at their cabin in Alaska, all the while barking and trying to herd the Dall Sheep and Caribou below from the front bubble window. Taffy was also fond of riding double with Barry on his horse Charlie.