PressBooks: BookBaby, Custom CSS, Languages, GitHub, Events

Here’s our latest newsletter:

We hope the writing is going well, we’ve been working hard at PressBooks trying to make publishing easier. Some quick news from us:

Sell Your Book Through BookBaby
Would you like to get your book into the Kindle store, Apple iBooks, Etc? Our partner BookBaby can do it for $99 (10% discount for PressBooks users), you keep 100% of royalties. More info.

Customize the Look of Your Books
Do you want to customize PressBooks export themes? Now you can, using CSS. More info.

Languages: Português, 日本語, Français, Español, 中國(繁體)
We’ve added new languages to the PressBooks interface, including: Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Japanese. All of our non-English language interfaces are works-in-progress. Please contact us if:
a) you can help improve our existing language/translations
b) you would like to translate PressBooks into another language for us.
More info.

PressBooks is on Github
Are you a developer and want to experiment with the PressBooks plugin? We’ve made it easier, we’re now on GitHub. More info.

Upcoming Events & Travel: Toronto, Berlin, Ottawa
We will be present/speaking at the following events in the next few weeks, please contact me if you’d like to meet up:

Upgrading PressBooks

Hi all, we’re doing a rather big upgrade of PressBooks… underway at the moment. There will likely be some interruption of service. Stay tuned.

But I’ve really come to love PressBooks. It’s just wonderful.

CBC Radio: Spark

I am on CBC Radio: Spark this week, talking to the always lovely Nora Young, about books, the internet & “Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto.”

I’m batting clean-up, segment starts at 45mins. Listen here.