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Enhance learning, sharing, and storytelling

The way people create and share knowledge is rapidly changing. Pressbooks makes it easier to unlock your full storytelling potential with interactive digital books and resources.

Whether you’re an author looking to launch your next book or an educational institution looking to improve student success, Pressbooks can help you create, adapt, and share accessible high-quality digital content with ease.

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Join thousands of authors using Pressbooks to create quality, accessible books and learning materials.

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Who Can Benefit from Pressbooks?

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Educational Institutions

Take charge with your own digital space to create, share, and update digital content and learning materials.
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Individuals & Teams

Easily self-publish digital book(s), working on your own or with a collaborative team.
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Learners & Readers

Browse thousands of free, open access digital books in our directory. Find a starting point for adapting your own book.
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What Pressbooks Makes Possible

Pressbooks is a versatile, user-friendly publishing platform trusted by authors and institutions for a variety of publishing needs including OER and more

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Create digital books with ease

Easily create digital books and other materials with an accessible platform to support modern publishing cycles and workflows
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Adapt existing materials

Find, copy, and adapt existing content using the Pressbooks Directory, our free searchable catalog of thousands of open access books
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Incorporate interactivity

Infuse your content with multimedia and interactive activities, like videos from YouTube, quizzes created with H5P, and social annotation using Hypothesis
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Customize for user needs

Ensure your content meets accessibility standards and easily localize it to meet the unique needs of your community
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Share your content widely

Share your content via a variety of export formats, and boost discoverability through the Pressbooks Directory, EBSCO, Ex Libris, and more
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Collaborate with co-creators

Easily collaborate with multiple other authors to co-create interactive, digital content
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Why Pressbooks?

With Pressbooks, you get more than just a great publishing platform. You get access to hassle free hosting, a growing library of content, and all the support you need to reach your goals.

The user-friendly choice

Built using WordPress, Pressbooks offers a user-friendly entry point for anyone involved in digital publishing projects

Access to thousands of books

All Pressbooks users have access to a free, searchable catalog of thousands of open access materials published by the Pressbooks community

Your own branded publishing space

Pressbooks enterprise users receive their own branded catalog to house and maintain the content produced by their community, complete with network analytics and a customizable domain

Success Stories

Hundreds of organizations use Pressbooks to create quality, accessible books and learning materials. Learn more about how Pressbooks has helped state and provincial educational organizations, community college systems, and individual universities to accomplish their publishing goals.

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Maricopa County Community College District

“The biggest problem that Pressbooks has helped us solve is providing a consistent platform for users to create content with, no matter what technical level they are at. The team at Pressbooks really thinks about the user; I can see it so clearly as both an administrator and a user.”
Mary Gu
Programs Lead, eCampusOntario
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“Anything that improves student learning is something I’m proud of. Helping students succeed with better and more accessible learning materials is something for our faculty to be proud of too.”
Debbie Baker,
OER Coordinator, Maricopa County Community College District
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One Platform. Many Possibilities.

Organizations use Pressbooks’ versatile publishing platform to support student success and other strategic priorities: textbook affordability, digital learning innovation, accessibility, inclusion, student engagement, and more

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Open Education

Create, share, adapt, and manage open educational resources (OER).

Interactive Learning

Make accessible, interactive digital content to engage students and increase learning.
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Diversity & Inclusion

Invite diverse voices and perspectives to be represented in your curriculum.
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Open Pedagogy

Power authentic learning with open pedagogy and student co-creation projects.
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Institutional Publishing

Support and maintain institutional publishing projects, programs, and collaborations.