The latest news and developments about our company, our product, and our team.
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
Pressbooks has some accessibility news to share: we’ve released our first VPAT and our administrative interface has achieved compliance with WCAG 2.0 A and AA guidelines as of Pressbooks 5.7.2.
Great news! Pressbooks is getting a makeover. Today, you’ll notice that our website will emerge from its chrysalis a bright and beautiful butterfly. Even better news! This update will not affect your books. We don’t anticipate any downtime for your live webbooks, and you should still be able to log in and edit your books
Regular members of the Texas Digital Library Consortium can now save 30% on PressbooksEDU Silver and Gold book production networks. Interested in building and growing your institution’s OER initiative? If your higher education institution is a regular member of the Texas Digital Library consortium, now is a great time to consider obtaining your own PressbooksEDU
Pressbooks founder Hugh McGuire was recently featured on Talking Through My Hat, a podcast by Futureproofs creator John Pettigrew that covers everything in the spectrum of book and business. You can listen to episode 49: Passion and idealism (Hugh McGuire interview) here. In the interview, Hugh describes how Pressbooks came to be what it is
Academic libraries in MN, ND and SD are eligible for 30% off the annual price for PressbooksEDU Silver and Gold plans. If you’re an academic library in the Minitex region, you’ll be excited to hear that your institution is now eligible for a discount on PressbooksEDU Silver and Gold subscriptions. At Pressbooks, our goal is
We’re halfway through OpenEd Week! Hopefully it’s been a good one for you – it has been for us! Pressbooks Client Manager Steel Wagstaff teamed up with eCampusOntario on Tuesday for ‘The Potential of PressbooksEDU,’ a webinar that included a tour of the updated OER production platform and demonstrated how Ontario educators can use Pressbooks