PressBooks is a web-based digital book publishing tool built on WordPress that allows for collaborative editing and simple generation of books in multiple formats like HTML, ePub, and print-ready PDF. It offers features like clean formatting, XML workflow, editorial team collaboration in the cloud, and customization options for look and feel or output to specific specs.
3. PressBooks Characteristics:
* PressBooks makes it easy to generate clean, well-
formatted books in multiple outputs
* PressBooks is so simple you won’t even know it’s an XML workflow tool
* PressBooks makes it easy for an editorial team to
work together on a book
* PressBooks puts your books in the cloud, in
structured mark-up -- giving you flexibility for the
future
4. Export formats:
* Web (HTML - private or public)
* ePub (standard ebook format)
* Print-on-Demand ready/typeset PDFs (for
standard layouts)
* InDesign ready XML (for high-end design)
* Other XML flavors (coming soon)
still experimental
5. What else can we do (with customization):
* Customize look & feel
* Output to specific typeset/print-ready PDF
template specs
* Output to specific ePub specs
* Output to other XML flavors
* Provide online, subscription-based books, to
readers