Book Publishing with
WordPress and PressBooks
Michael Montgomery
www.montgomerystudios.com
@Montgomery
Wordcamp Miami 2013
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Who Are You?
Author?
Writer?
Prospective?
Friend?
Client?
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Who Am I?
Michael Montgomery:
learning & building on the
Web since the mid-90s.
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Miami
Children’s
Hospital
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Author?
Not yet.™
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Books
Gutenberg 1455
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Publishers
Publishing industry
Publisher contract?
Agent?
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Digital formats?
Kindle? .mobi
Nook, iBook? .epub
PDF? (print-on-demand)
Web?
knowledge/time?
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We’re in the
right room.
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WP is awesome.
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But..
One.
Big.
Textarea.
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...Anarchy
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Content Is Still
King.
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Structured
content is good
content.
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What is a book?
...in a post-paper world?
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Answer:
Structured content:
Longform
Title
Cover
Front matter
Chapters
End matter
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Semantic
content in WP
Post creation text box:
paste a Word document!
Um, no.
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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
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tl;dr
www.pressbooks.com
Sign Up
Write book
Cover image
Export
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Example Book
thelaw.pressbooks.com
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