Pressbooks
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.
Also recorded as pressbooks.org
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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.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Pressbooks • 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 — pressbooks.org
History
History
Pressbooks is developed by Book Oven, Inc., a Montreal-based company founded in 2011 by Hugh McGuire (who also founded the audio book platform LibriVox). Originally aimed at self-publishing authors, in 2017 Pressbooks shifted its focus to work with universities on academic and textbook publishing.
Overview
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. 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: • University of Hawaii • University of California, Berkeley • University of Kansas • eCampusOntario • Unizin Consortium • Indiana University • Illinois University • BCcampus • Michigan State University • University of Sheffield
Catalogued output
Publications and programmes
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that pressbooks is held in Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace. It is also recorded that pressbooks is held in Text Analysis Portal for Research. It is also recorded that pressbooks is recorded as free software.
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Documents and archives
reference work
- “Pressbooks”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q85794420: Pressbooks
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Rooney, Mick. PressBooks – Reviewed. The Independent Publishing Magazine. 2015-03-18.
- 2.The Bookseller. BiblioBoard, Pressbooks partner on library-based self-publishing. 2015-11-13.
- 3.McGrath, Taylor. Library is the new publisher. 2017.
- 4.Pressbooks - about.
- 5.Pressbooks.org.
- 6.How the University of Hawaii is solving today's higher ed problems. Opensource.com. February 3, 2017.
- 7.UC Berkeley becomes first university to offer PressbooksEDU to entire campus community. Berkeley Library News. April 3, 2018.
- 8.Bobkowski, Peter. Be Credible. Pressbooks. 2018.
- 9.Pressbooks now available to eCampusOntario member institutions. eCampusOntario. April 3, 2018.
- 10.Pressbooks Hosting through Unizin. Unizin Consortium.
- 11.About Pressbooks at IU. Indiana University.
- 12.Publishing in Pressbooks. Illinois Library.
- 13.BC Open Textbooks.
- 14.Open Textbook Publishing – OER at MSU Libraries.
- 15.The University of Sheffield Pressbooks Network – a platform for Sheffield authors to create and adapt open books.
References
Citations
References
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General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
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