An overview of the design principles and objectives of PressBooks, the open source CMS for books.

1. PressBooks.com
a CMS for books
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3. Input your book once, we output...

4. epub kindle pdf
mobile desktop

5. How did we (I) get here?

7. My definition of a book:
“A book is a discrete collection of text (and
other media), that is designed by the
author(s) as an internally complete
representation of an idea, or set of ideas;
emotion or set of emotions...”

8. Three
Design Principles
underpinning
PressBooks

9. 1.
PressBooks
should be easy for anyone to use
(even me).

14. 2.
- input text once
- output in every format:
EPUB, MOBI, WEB AND PRINT.
(etc.)

15. All
PressBooks outputs:
-- EPUB, MOBI, PDF, web --
are based on:
HTML+CSS
the styling technologies that drive the web.

19. PDF
(for print)

23. EPUB
(for Nook, iBooks, Kobo, etc)

24. Apple
iBooks

25. Kobo

26. Alkido

27. Bluefire
Reader

28. MOBI
(for Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle eink)

29. Kindle
Fire

30. Kindle
Paperwhite

31. Kindle
eink

32. WEB
(for computers, smartphones, and tablets)

33. Laptops &
Computers

34. Tablets &
Smartphones

36. 3.
The web will win in the end
and
future-proofing
your workflow
now
is a good idea.

48. Study Aid:
Three PressBooks design principles:
1. easy to use
2. input text once, output all formats
3. the web will win in the end

49. Three
Objectives
for
PressBooks
or, what shall we do with our
Design Principles?

50. 1.
(Short-term)
Allow anyone
to make
a beautiful book.

52. 2.
(medium term)
Make PressBooks the best book
publishing tool in the world.

53. “I feel like I died and went to nerd
heaven.”
-- Marissa Wold,
Production Manager,
Fortress Press/Augsberg Fortress.

55. 3.
(long term)
Bring the stuff of books onto web,
into the network.

56. My definition of a book:
“A book is a discrete collection of text (and
other media), that is designed by the
author(s) as an internally complete
representation of an idea, or set of ideas;
emotion or set of emotions...
... with an API.”

57. tl;dr:

58. PressBooks:
easy.
one input, all book formats.
web.

59. We would like to help you make books.
pressbooks.com
CONTACT:
Hugh McGuire
+1.514.464.2047
hugh@pressbooks.com
@hughmcguire
@pressbooks