Why Pressbooks?

Please feel free to log onto your computer and visit my catalog at Pressbooks https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/catalog/kirkeyj

This whole “presentation” is there – this is being done in Pressbooks

Why should YOU use Pressbooks?

  • Pressbooks is a publishing platform.
  • It looks great on the web.
  • It looks great in print.
  • It exports easily to a variety of formats including PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Kindle .[1]
  • 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.
  • BCcampus[2] preferred[3] format   https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/
  • Based on WordPress[4], so already familiar to many people.

 

  1. "PDFs are where textbooks go to die." says Clint Lalonde, UBC and BCcampus Tech guru. ↵
  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 ↵

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To the extent possible under law, Jennifer Kirkey and OpenStax have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to x-A-Learn PressBooks with Newton's Laws for C&BA, except where otherwise noted.

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