Pressbooks<\/a> is online software that enables authors and publishers to create well-designed file formats needed to publish a book:<\/p>\n All these export files are produced using templates that are optimized to look great on all kinds of devices (Kindles, iPhones, iPads and Android devices), as well as good old-fashioned print pages.<\/p>\n Pressbooks also produces a web version of every book, which can be kept private, used for collaboration between authors and editors, or made publicly available. Leveraging that web version of their books, some publishers are using the Pressbooks catalog feature<\/a> to give readers access to samples of their books.<\/p>\n Pressbooks is built using WordPress<\/a> as a development framework. Most users of Pressbooks use Pressbooks.com<\/a> (though the more adventurous can use the open source plugin<\/a> with their own WordPress multisite installation).<\/p>\n Pressbooks is used by small and medium-sized publishers, as well as individual authors.<\/p>\n The advantages of Pressbooks include:<\/p>\n This guide is a work in progress. It is meant to be an evolving handbook for how to use Pressbooks. It is hoped that it also will be useful for anyone doing ebook production, explaining how we deal with various styling problems across ebook platforms.<\/p>\n You can find this Guide’s\u00a0Table of Contents<\/a>\u00a0… let us know if we are missing anything.<\/p>\n Here are some ways you can help:<\/p>\n In all cases, you can get in touch by:<\/p>\n\n
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