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Pressbooks empowers educators and self-publishers to create and share accessible, interactive digital books, textbooks, and OER materials.

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Whether you are looking to publish your own content, collaborate with others, or find high-quality educational resources, our platform has the tools you need. Choose the best fit for you and learn how our platform can support your publishing journey.
Educators using Pressbooks to create open educational resources (OER) and publish digital books optimized for learning

Educational Institutions

With Pressbooks you can create or adapt educational materials like interactive textbooks and curriculum, and support initiatives like textbook affordability and student success
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Individuals & Teams

With Pressbooks you have access to a user-friendly authoring platform that makes it easy to create or adapt books, alone or with a team
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Learners & Readers

With Pressbooks you have access to a user-friendly authoring platform that makes it easy to create or adapt books, alone or with a team
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How Pressbooks Supports Open Publishing

Open publishing, or open access publishing, aims to make academic and scholarly information freely available online to enhance access, visibility, and collaborative opportunities. It involves developing and publishing open access books and materials, typically released with an “open license” (such as Creative Commons licenses) allowing others to retain, revise, remix, reuse, and redistribute the content.

Authors may choose open publishing to broaden access, eliminate costs for students and readers, and encourage iterative improvements on their work. Openly licensed academic and learning materials are known as open educational resources (OER).

Pressbooks offers the following features to support open publishing:

Multiple licenses

Authors may select from multiple open licenses for their work (such as Creative Commons licenses), as well as an “all rights reserved” license.

Easy to collaborate

Project teams easily collaborate on creating, updating, and improving published work

Pressbooks Directory

The Pressbooks Directory is a free, searchable catalog tool anyone can use to discover openly-licensed books they can use as is or adapt in open publishing projects.

Multiple download formats

Authors may choose from multiple download formats to make their work available and accessible to users.

Easy to clone

The “cloning” feature inside Pressbooks makes it simple to make copies of openly-licensed books published using Pressbooks and then adapt or remix these materials.

Book analytics

Book analytics provide insights to authors about how their work is being used, such as book views, cloned copies, and downloads.

For more information about open publishing and how to build this capability, visit our directory or check out our Open Education Resource Guide.

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