New Features

New Feature: PressBooks Book “Home Page”

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PressBooks has a newly-designed homepage for your book, here’s what it looks like:

PressBooks Book Homepage

PressBooks Book Homepage

We pull all the information about your book to build this page from various places in your PressBooks Admin panel:

  • Title, description texts (tagline, short description, long description, author, cover and catalog metadata) from the Book Info page in your PressBooks admin.
  • The “Buy” button & link get generated when you fill in your ecommerce links on the “Sell” page
  • The “About the Author” text gets added if you add Backmatter, with Type=”About the Author”

Private vs. Public

You don’t need to make this page public to the world — but since it looks so beautiful, don’t you think you should?

Responsive Design

Of course we’ve made the design responsive, so it looks nice on smartphones and tablets, here it is on the iPhone:

PressBooks Book Homepage - on iphone

PressBooks Book Homepage – on iphone

and:

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PressBooks Book Homepage – on iPhone again

 

Your Guide to the New PressBooks Book Homepage

Finally, here’s a full view of the page, showing you where various bits of information come from:

pressbooks-book-page-about

Parts of a PressBooks Book Homepage… and how they get there!

Like it? Hate it? Let us know on Twitter or Facebook, or good old fashioned email: support@pressbooks.com