Pressbooks Explained

Pressbooks
Logo Size:250px
Logo Caption:Logo as of August 2022
Developer:Book Oven, Inc.
Released:2011
Latest Release Version:5.20.1
Repo:https://github.com/pressbooks
Programming Language:PHP
Platform:WordPress
Genre:content management system
License:GNU GPLv3
Website:https://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.[1]

History

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]

Overview

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:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PressBooks – Reviewed. Rooney. Mick. 2015-03-18. The Independent Publishing Magazine. 2019-10-08.
  2. Web site: BiblioBoard, Pressbooks partner on library-based self-publishing. 2015-11-13. The Bookseller. 2019-10-08.
  3. Book: McGrath, Taylor. Library is the new publisher. 2017. . 2. Overview of Pressbooks. https://libraryisthenewpublisher.pressbooks.com/chapter/overview-of-pressbooks/. 2019-10-08.
  4. Web site: Pressbooks - about. 2019-10-08.
  5. Web site: Pressbooks.org. 2019-10-08.
  6. Web site: How the University of Hawaii is solving today's higher ed problems. February 3, 2017. Opensource.com. 2019-10-08.
  7. Web site: UC Berkeley becomes first university to offer PressbooksEDU to entire campus community. April 3, 2018. Berkeley Library News. 2019-10-08.
  8. Web site: Bobkowski . Peter . Younger . Karna . Be Credible . Pressbooks . December 4, 2019 . 2018.
  9. Web site: Pressbooks now available to eCampusOntario member institutions. April 3, 2018. eCampusOntario. 2019-09-05.
  10. Web site: Pressbooks Hosting through Unizin. Unizin Consortium. 2019-09-05.
  11. Web site: About Pressbooks at IU. Indiana University. 2019-09-05.
  12. Web site: Publishing in Pressbooks. Illinois Library. 2019-09-05.
  13. Web site: BC Open Textbooks. 2019-09-05.
  14. Web site: Open Textbook Publishing – OER at MSU Libraries . 2022-10-20 . en-US.

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