Overview

Before the second week, please create an account at Pressbooks.com and download the demo chapter we will be using next week.

The activity

The primary activity in this workshop is adapting a chapter of an existing open textbooks. The specific tasks & instructions will be in week 2.

To do this, we will be using a web-based publishing tool called PressBooks. PressBooks is based on the popular WordPress blogging platform and if you have worked with WordPress before then you should find PressBooks familiar.

PressBooks allows authors to create once and publish in many different formats, with options to output a finished book in PDF, ePub, mobi (for Kindle e-readers) and as a standalone website. PressBooks also has some import tool that allow you to import content from Word and ePub.

While PressBooks is available as an open source plugin for WordPress, for this week we will be using the self-hosted version at PressBooks.com. While this version is free, the outputs do contain a PressBooks watermark.

Task

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