The latest news and developments about our company, our product, and our team.
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
If you have a PressbooksEDU Silver plan, or were considering one, you may be excited to hear that all PressbooksEDU plans now enable you to produce Thin Common Cartridge exports with web links. This means that you can more easily display links to all of the chapters of a public book within a learning management
As a company headquartered in Quebec, we’re particularly pleased to announce that the Pressbooks administrative interface now has 100% coverage for French language users! Thanks to contributions from eCampusOntario, we recently oversaw the professional translation (by TCI, Inc.) of the webpage interface and various administrative menus. To find out how to set up your user