About Us

We are a small team that builds software to support new models for book publishing. We are passionate about open source, open content, open knowledge, open education, and the intersection of books and the web. Over the past decade, we’ve helped hundreds of organizations publish thousands of free and openly licensed educational books.

Pressbooks got its start in Montreal, but our team today is fully remote, working across Canada, the United States, and beyond.

Our Goals

We started small but we have big dreams. While Pressbooks is a versatile tool with myriad applications, it has grown into the preferred platform for open educational publishing programs. There was a need for an easy-to-use platform on which to create professional educational content in an open and ethical way, and we responded.

Today, we want to drive the open publishing movement by partnering with institutions of higher education around the world. We help our partners compete with large commercial publishers, while supporting their immediate need to get accessible educational content into the hands of students. As we lead the open movement, we will remain good listeners and good actors. We will keep developing products and services that do good in the world. We will be your partner in open publishing.

Our Values

Pressbooks’ tools are developed with educators in mind and so are our business, communications strategy, and team. We’ve looked at the challenges facing higher education institutions and shaped our company accordingly.

We take our values seriously. They aren’t just words we chose to present an ethical image. These guiding principles help us make choices on a daily basis to deliver the best solutions for our users, solving real problems in their lives.

Learn more about our accessibility commitments.