Introduction to Pressbooks
What is Pressbooks?
Pressbooks is a web-based authoring tool based on the WordPress authoring platform. If you’ve created a website using WordPress, you’ll find some similarities working with Pressbooks. Pressbooks allows you to create content once and publishes it in many different formats including PDF, xHTML, XML and EPUB (fig 1). These formats enable the resource to be easily imported into different platforms such as WordPress, Wikis and even learning management systems. In addition, Pressbooks resources can be easily copied and adapted for different contexts.
Export Formats
| PDF documents are designed | |
| Digital PDF | |
| xHTML | This format allows the resource to be |
| HTML | |
| EPUB | EPUB files are designed for portability. These files are used for most eBooks and other eReaders. The point of these files is not to provide editing capability, but to deliver a comprehensive package that contains all elements of a book including text and images — like a zipped package — to a device for reading. |
Why Pressbooks
For the creation of this Indigenization resource for BC Pressbooks is a platform that allows us to create content that can be easily reused, and adapted by different institutions. In doing this the core resource can be easily localized for different regions and institutions. By using a modular design our goal is for different institutions to be able to put together a resource or set of resources, adapt it to their context and share it in ways that make it easy to access for students, instructors, staff and the community. We are excited about the potential of developing a living resource that can be adapted, built upon and shared throughout BC.
- Export in different formats
- Remix and publish customized texts
- Both a website and a resource
- Import content into WordPress
- Indigenous fonts
