![]() We started focusing development on edu needs, such as interactive quizzes, integrations with Learning Management Systems etc. In the early days PB was used mostly by self-publishers, as well as some small presses, and some academic publishers and media companies experimenting with new publishing models.īut it was the embrace of the open education movement, at BCcampus, SUNY and others that really set the trajectory for the company. Pressbooks started out as a general purpose book publishing platform: input your content once in an online platform, and then get an output of: PDF (ready for print), ebook files (EPUB/Mobi), and finally web. ![]() How has the company developed over the past decade? It is an absolute pleasure to talk with the Pressbooks founder Hugh McGuire. ![]() Authors like Mike Caulfield (‘ Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers‘) and Tony Bates (‘ Teaching in a Digital Age‘) are at home here, as well as campuses such as Berkeley and Hawai’i and cross-institutional organizations such as BC Campus. Pressbooks is easy to use and highly customizable. I greatly appreciated the platform when producing the OER textbook ‘ Local Government in North Carolina’, an interactive textbook that can be used at the K-12 level, by informal learners, and in civic education programs. Pressbooks offers both institutional plans and individual accounts to self-publish. It also allows for a variety of export options for others to adapt the content, which makes it a great choice for open educational resources and open access textbooks. This creates maximum platform-independent accessibility so that people with different e-readers (Kindle, iPad, Nook, etc.), desktop browsers and mobile devices can use the resource with ease. Pressbooks is a WordPress based platform that allows authors to publish e-books in multiple formats (epub, mobi, html, pdf) from one single source document.
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