Pressbooks is a web-based book editing and production system that exports in multiple formats: ebooks, webbooks, print-ready PDF, and various XML types. The system is built on top of Wordpress, but makes significant changes to the admin interface, presentation layer, and export routines to for web, ebook, and print formats. Pressbooks is widely used in the open textbook and open educational resouces community.
Institutional host: Pressbooks
URL: https://pressbooks.com/
Principal investigator: Hugh McGuire
Contact: [email protected]
Lead developer: Ned Zimmerman
Funding sources: client-supported
Development partners: Bight.ca
Partners: Rebus Foundation
Initial release: 2011
Version (as of June 2019): 5.8.0
URL: https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/
Language: PHP
License: GPL v3
Last commit: 2019-04-22
Contributors: 32