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Book Publishing with WordPress & PressBooks

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April 07, 2013
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Book Publishing with WordPress & PressBooks

That book you’ve been sitting on for years, just won’t write itself. In an age of digital everything, social media, and individual brands, how best to write and publish longform content?

WordPress can be a good tool to capture and manage writing and publishing books, longform prose, and other structured content. PressBooks is an open source WordPress plugin, which can export your books with one click for Kindle, iBook, Nook & PDF, and can make a web version of your book.

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April 07, 2013
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  1. Who Am I? Michael Montgomery: learning & building on the

    Web since the mid-90s. 3 Sunday, April 7, 13
  2. Semantic content in WP Post creation text box: paste a

    Word document! Um, no. 17 Sunday, April 7, 13
  3. So, PressBooks: Plugin for WP Free, as in wine Open

    source Freemium Book Parts = site properties Chapters = posts One-click export to digital book formats 18 Sunday, April 7, 13