Why Pressbooks?

You can visit this book at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/abesandbox

Pressbooks is a publishing platform.

Why we use Pressbooks?

  • It looks great on the web
  • It looks great in print
  • It exports easily to a variety of formats including PDFs[1] textbooks go to die." Clint Lanonde, UBC and BCcampus Tech guru[/footnote], Mobi for Kindle, etc.
  • BCcampus[2] preferred[3] format   https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/
  • Based on WordPress[4], so already familiar to many people.
  • Flexible
  • Allows for integration with images, videos and H5P

 

  1. "PDFs are where open[footnote]Open textbooks, or the more general OER or Open Educational Resources are books that are copyright free, normally available at low or no costs to students. Free and legal to share and modify. ↵
  2. https://bccampus.ca/ ↵
  3. BCcampus is funded by the Ministry of Advanced Skills and Training. https://bccampus.ca/about-us/ ↵
  4. https://wordpress.org/. 35% of the Web uses WordPress ↵

License

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Pressbooks for ABE Copyright © by Krista Lambert is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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