It’s time for us to lift the curtain on some major changes here at Pressbooks! We’ve spent a lot of time over the last month doing some much-needed maintenance across the platform, including theme improvements and changes to the user experience for institutions using single-sign on technology. These past weeks also included important work on
Take a look at our new textbook theme and try out its coolest feature: interchangeable fonts As some of you may have noticed, we have a tradition here at Pressbooks of naming our book themes after famous authors. We’ve tried to imprint the legacy that these authors and their books have left on literature onto
To boost the performance and security of the Pressbooks.com network, we intend to perform scheduled maintenance on Thursday, Sept. 12 between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Eastern. What to expect. You can expect a short service interruption (1-2 minute downtime expected) at some point during this time frame, which would cut off any long processes like imports/exports.
Pressbooks is excited to unveil a new premium plugin on hosted PressbooksEDU client networks: network analytics! Eager to know more about how faculty and students at your institution are using your PressbooksEDU network? This new plugin allows you to view helpful data about books and users, and includes new charts that provide you with visual
OERizona Event to Highlight Open Education Practices and Practitioners Pressbooks is proud to cosponsor the first ever OERizona event this autumn! This free workshop takes place the day before the 16th Annual Open Education Conference in Arizona. We hope you’ll help us spread the word, or register and attend if you’ll be in town! You’ll
Any institutional member of WiLS cooperative purchasing service is now eligible for a 30% discount on PressbooksEDU Silver networks. We’re happy to partner with non-profit library organization WiLS to offer this great deal to its members. Here’s what PressbooksEDU can bring to your institution’s open educational resource production program: Easy-to-use software on which to produce
We’re happy to announce the much-awaited arrival of full support for MathJax on PressbooksEDU networks! MathJax is a JavaScript display engine that translates mathematical markup into high resolution, accessible equations that can render in any supported book format on Pressbooks. Equations in exported formats will also display in SVG, or scalable vector graphic format, meaning
We’re adding yet another perk to PressbooksEDU networks: a discussion space in our Pressbooks Community specifically for network managers of EDU hosted networks. All current and future PressbooksEDU network managers will be invited to connect, interact, and share ideas with others in similar roles in this forum. Our decision to create this new community space
Institutional members of the Open Textbook Network (OTN) are eligible for 30% off the annual price for PressbooksEDU Silver and Gold plans. If your institution is a member of the OTN*, you can save on the annual subscription price for a PressbooksEDU Silver or Gold network. Together, Pressbooks and the OTN are working to help
A lot of work goes into making great software for great people. We’re currently looking for an ambitious student or recent graduate in the Montreal area who would like to be a part of that work. If you’re interested in the crossroads of education, technology, and publishing, we’d like to hear from you. For more