- By Sal Meyers
- Aug 9, 2015
- Filed in CC3 Work Collaboratively, Planning a CL Course
Web-based program for creating books that can be published as a PDF file or a Kindle e-book. Students could collaborate to create their own book using an interface based on WordPress.
Strengths
PressBooks has a Youtube channel containing short videos teaching authors how to use PressBooks: https://www.youtube.com/user/pressbooks.
Books can have multiple authors. View the video How to Add a User to Your Book in Pressbooks to learn how to add multiple authors.
Concerns
The free version of the program puts a watermark on every page of the book. It costs approximately $20 per book to remove the watermark on MOBI and EPUB versions of the book and $100 to remove the watermark on PDF versions of the book.
Text, images, and links can be included, but audio files cannot.