Pressbooks

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Pressbooks
Developer(s)Book Oven, Inc.
Initial release2011
Stable release
5.20.1 / 27 April 2021; 9 months ago (2021-04-27)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/pressbooks
Written inPHP
PlatformWordPress
Typecontent management system
LicenseGNU GPLv3
Websitehttps://pressbooks.org/

Pressbooks is an open source content management system designed for creating books. It is based on WordPress, and can export content in many formats for ebooks, webbooks or print.

Overview[]

Pressbooks is developed by Book Oven, Inc., a Montréal-based company founded in 2011 by Hugh McGuire (who also founded the audio book platform LibriVox).[1] [2] [3] Originally aimed at self-publishing authors, in 2017 Pressbooks shifted its focus to work with universities on academic and textbook publishing.[3]

The software is built on WordPress Multisite with modification of the admin and reader interfaces to reflect the intention of authoring books, a choice of themes for formating books, and to allow the export of books in print-ready PDF, mobi, ePub, and many other open formats.[4][5] It is available as a hosted service for self-publishers (pressbooks.com), supported institutional hosting (PressbooksEdu), third party hosts, or self-hosting of the software available from pressbooks.org.

Pressbooks is often used to create open textbooks and other forms of open educational resource, for example at the following institutions:

References[]

  1. ^ Rooney, Mick (2015-03-18). "PressBooks – Reviewed". The Independent Publishing Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  2. ^ "BiblioBoard, Pressbooks partner on library-based self-publishing". The Bookseller. 2015-11-13. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  3. ^ a b McGrath, Taylor (2017). "2. Overview of Pressbooks". Library is the new publisher. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  4. ^ "Pressbooks - about". Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  5. ^ "Pressbooks.org". Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  6. ^ "How the University of Hawaii is solving today's higher ed problems". Opensource.com. February 3, 2017. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  7. ^ "UC Berkeley becomes first university to offer PressbooksEDU to entire campus community". Berkeley Library News. April 3, 2018. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  8. ^ Bobkowski, Peter; Younger, Karna (2018). "Be Credible". Pressbooks. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  9. ^ "Pressbooks now available to eCampusOntario member institutions". eCampusOntario. April 3, 2018. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  10. ^ "Pressbooks Hosting through Unizin". Unizin Consortium. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  11. ^ "About Pressbooks at IU". Indiana University. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  12. ^ "Publishing in Pressbooks". Illinois Library. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  13. ^ "BC Open Textbooks". Retrieved 2019-09-05.

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