Pressbooks Self-Publisher: Plans & Pricing

Join thousands of individual creators using Pressbooks Self-Publisher to support their digital publishing needs.

Free Trial

Ideal for trying out the platform

Free


Create a new book to begin a free 7-day trial of Pressbooks Self-Publisher. Upgrade to a subscription plan at any point during your trial.

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Single Author

Ideal for solo authors

$12 / month

or $120 / year

Purchase a Single Author subscription to create and publish your digital book. Generate EPUB and PDF exports and distribute your work however you like.

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Collaboration

Ideal for teams publishing interactive textbooks

$40 / month

or $400 / year

Upgrade to the Collaboration plan to create, publish, and share interactive educational material. Invite as many collaborators as you need.

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Compare Pressbooks Self-Publisher Plans

Feature

Free Trial

Single Author

Collaboration

Number of authors and collaborators

1

1

Unlimited

Media storage for your book

100MB

250MB

1GB

Write or import original content

Included
Included
Included

Clone and adapt existing content from openly licensed books

Included
Included
Included

Organize your content into fron/back matter, parts, and chapters

Included
Included
Included

Enhance your book with images, multimedia, glossary terms, and footnotes

Included
Included
Included

Include mathematics and scientific notation tooltip

Included
Included
Included

Apply any of 20+ themes to customize book appearance

Included
Included
Included

Add and display book information (metadata)

Included
Included
Included

Allow social annotation via Hypothes.is

Included
Included
Included

Access self-service support resources (guide, videos, webinars)

Included
Included
Included

Make all or part of your book public on the web

Not included
Included
Included

Increase your book’s reach by listing it in the Pressbooks Directory and other discovery tools tooltip

Not included
Included
Included

Publish a fully accessible (WCAG 2.2 compliant) digital book

Not included
Included
Included

Produce accessible EPUB and PDF exports without watermarks

Not included
Included
Included

Produce XML, XHTML, and Common Cartridge export files

Not included
Included
Included

View web traffic over time with a built-in analytics dashboardtooltip

Not included
Included
Included

Invite others to collaborate with you in creating or editing content

Not included
Not included
Included

Easily create, copy, or embed quizzes and other interactive activities via H5P

Not included
Not included
Included

Add custom CSS to modify the appearance of your digital book, EPUB, and PDF exports

Not included
Not included
Included

Make your latest export files available for download from your book’s home page

Not included
Not included
Included

Try Pressbooks Self-Publisher

To try Pressbooks Self-Publisher all you need is an email address. Simply:

  1. Create a free Pressbooks Self-Publisher account.
  2. Create a new book (or clone an existing one). Any new book you create will automatically begin a free 7-day trial.
  3. Follow along with our Getting Started with Pressbooks Self-Publisher playlist and User Guide at your own pace.
  4. Choose the subscription plan that’s right for your project before your trial expires.
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Frequently Asked Questions

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Yes! With Pressbooks, it’s quite simple to create and publish digital work, and then adjust and update it over time. As long as you maintain an active book subscription, you have access to add, edit, and adjust your content and to produce and distribute new export files. If your work is openly licensed, then Pressbooks will continue hosting the book even if you decide to end the subscription. To make further updates, you simply need to reactivate your subscription.

Yes. You can create file exports for your book at any time and distribute these exports however you wish. File export options include digital and print-ready PDFs, EPUB, XML, XHTML, and Common Cartridge.

Yes. Pressbooks includes several import options, including one for Word documents. Our user guide describes how to import these documents. The process is fairly straightforward if the document has been prepared correctly, though some documents may require manual formatting adjustments after they have been imported into Pressbooks.

Yes, you can embed images, audio and video files in Pressbooks, as well as other types of multimedia. For smaller media types (like images and some audio files), you can upload files directly to Pressbooks by adding them to your book’s media library. Larger files, like videos, should be uploaded to a dedicated media streaming service and then embedded in your book. There are storage limits to how much media content you can upload for your book (100MB for the free trial, 250MB for the Self-publisher plan, and 1GB for the Collaboration plan).

Yes. Pressbooks respects the rights of its creators, and allows you to download, distribute, and sell your book however you like. At present, there are no monetization options built directly into Pressbooks. Authors are free to produce PDF or EPUB exports and to sell or distribute them via a website, bookstore, or online marketplace. Pressbooks allows you to easily add links allowing readers to buy your work wherever you’ve made it available for purchase, but does not charge any royalties or take any percentage of your book sales.

ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers) are unique product identifiers used by bookstores, publishers, libraries, and others in the book-selling trade. If you plan to sell your book, you will probably find it useful to have an ISBN for each of the formats in which your book will be sold (i.e. digital ebook and print). If you do not plan to sell your book, you don’t need an ISBN (many people publish open access books with Pressbooks, which don’t typically feature ISBNs). As an author or publisher, you can purchase an ISBN from the authorized ISBN agency for the country in which you operate. If you’ve been issued ISBNs for your book, you can enter them into Pressbooks using the Book Info tool.

Looking for a plan that provides Pressbooks to your whole organization?

In addition to Self-Publisher Plans, Pressbooks offers Enterprise Networks that provide
a professionally-hosted, branded network and all the tools and training needed to run
your own institutional publishing program.

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