PressBooks @ Toronto WordPress Meetup April 2013

On April 20th, Hugh McGuire of PressBooks.com took Toronto WordPress Group members through a tour of the PressBooks platform. These are his slides.

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1. PressBooks the CMS for books built on WordPress CONTACT: hugh@pressbooks.com +1.514.464.2047
2. Freemium/SaaS: PressBooks.com is a hosted, managed SaaS tool, for those who don’t want to run their own installations.
4. Open Source: PressBooks is a GPL plugin for WordPress Multi-site, and we are on Github.
6. Input your book once, we output: * PDF (typeset) * EPUB (for iBooks, Nook etc) * MOBI (for Kindle) * Web * other XML
7. All PressBooks templates: -- EPUB, MOBI, PDF, web -- are based on: CSS (cascading style sheets) the styling technology that drives the web.
8. Customizable export templates: epub kindle pdf mobile desktop
9. Online book catalog:
11. PressBooks has: An easy-to-use web-interface ... 4 easy steps to making a book:
12. Step 1. Add book information/metadata:
14. Step 2a. Add your chapters:
16. Step 2b. Organize your chapters:
18. Step 3a. Choose your export theme/ template:
20. Step 3b. Choose your theme options:
22. Step 4. Export your book in whatever formats you want:
24. Extras #1. Edit CSS ... for: EPUB, WEB, and... PDF ... (yes, PDF).
26. Extras #2. Sell your books.
30. PressBooks makes: Beautifully-designed books in all formats:
31. PDF (for print)
36. EPUB (for Nook, iBooks, Kobo, etc)
37. Apple iBooks
38. Kobo
39. Alkido
40. Bluefire Reader
41. MOBI (for Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle eink)
42. Kindle Fire
43. Kindle Paperwhite
44. Kindle eink
45. WEB (for computers, smartphones, and tablets)
46. Tablets & Smartphones
47. Laptops & Computers
48. We would like to help you make books. Please let us know if you have questions. CONTACT: Hugh McGuire +1.514.464.2047 hugh@pressbooks.com