April 27, 2015 by
Hugh McGuire
Why can’t we read anymore? (Post on Medium)
Hugh McGuire Asks: Why Can’t We Read Anymore? I wrote something last week that might be of interest to you, a piece about my efforts to wean myself from digital
Author: Hugh McGuire
October 21, 2014 by
Hugh McGuire
Testing Pressbooks’ Kindle Output on iPhones and iPads (MOBI7, KF8, AZK, gahhh)
If you test your Pressbooks output of Kindle files on your iPad/iPhone, it will look not look very nice. But the files that people actually buy from Kindle on iOS
July 11, 2014 by
Hugh McGuire
Server Fixed?
Hi all, It’s been a not-great Friday, but I think we have the server issues under control. Still investigating root causes. In the mean time, if you see something weird,
July 11, 2014 by
Hugh McGuire
Server Troubles
Hi all, we had some server troubles this morning, and we’re working on fixing things. Everything is a bit odd at the moment, but we hope to have it resolved
May 16, 2014 by
Hugh McGuire
Formatting Poetry and Paragraphs for Your Book
We’ve just posted a new chapter to our Guide that describes how paragraph indenting and non-indenting works in Pressbooks, and gives some recommendations about how to handle poetry in the
May 14, 2014 by
Hugh McGuire
Pressbooks May Newsletter
We’ve got a short/sweet Pressbooks newsletter this month! 1. THIS WEEK: 30% DISCOUNT OFF PDF EXPORTS Is our PDF export too dear? Well, now’s the time to save some money:
May 02, 2014 by
Hugh McGuire
New Themes: Asimov & Asimov Color
We just added a new book design theme couple: Asimov and Asimov Color. This theme is built for Scifi of course, but can probably suit a whole bunch of styles
May 01, 2014 by
Hugh McGuire
New Theme: Kambar (Tamil)
We have a good number of Tamil users in Pressbooks, and in support of their work we have just released a theme with support for Tamil script, called Kambar (after
April 25, 2014 by
Hugh McGuire
New Theme: Murakami
We’ve got a new theme for literary and scifi, Murakami, after the Japanese master of literary bizarro creepiness and metaphysical confusion, Haruki Murakmai. Screenshot: And you can test it out
April 22, 2014 by
Hugh McGuire
Create interior PDFs for Print on Demand
Australian self-publishing guru Emily Craven, of E-Book Revolution, has made a wonderful video that explains how she used Pressbooks to produce the PDFs she needed to get her book into