Turn Your Book Ideas into Reality

With Pressbooks Self-Publisher you can easily create and self-publish a book, working on your own or with others.

Thousands of authors use Pressbooks’ user-friendly platform to create engaging digital learning material, write open textbooks, publish novels and original non-fiction, share their family history, update training manuals, present dissertations or student portfolios, and more.

Pressbooks Features

What People Love about Pressbooks Self-Publisher

Easy to use

Pressbooks' WordPress-based platform is intuitive, with a quick learning curve and helpful user guide. Creators can learn the basics in minutes and quickly become self-sufficient as authors and publishers.

Beautiful Books

Organize and present your work in an intuitive, easy-to-navigate digital book structure. Choose from 20+ pre-built premium themes to customize the look and feel of your book.

Multiple download formats

Export your work in several flexible download file formats (PDF, EPUB, HTML and more) and distribute your content however they see fit.

Baked-in accessibility

Pressbooks is an accessible platform that makes it simple to produce accessible learning materials (including PDFs). Multiple design features help ensure creations are accessible for all.

Book analytics

Pressbooks provides authors with a built-in dashboard that displays how often your book is visited, which chapters are viewed most often, and where your book traffic comes from.

Interactive Webbooks

Pressbooks allows authors to enrich your books with audio, video, and embedded media. The Collaboration plan allows you to create quizzes and other interactive activities to engage your readers.

Testimonials

Why Choose Pressbooks Self-Publisher?

Pressbooks has helped thousands of authors accomplish their publishing goals.

Pressbooks has been great for our digital singles publishing program. Its easy input and multiple outputs have given us a quicker way to produce content for our readers.
Ania Wieckowski
Ania Wieckowski
Managing Editor, Harvard Business Review Press
As a technologically challenged individual who is constantly trying to keep up, I found Pressbooks so easy to use, that the process of creating my own ebook actually was fun and exciting.
Marshall Terrill
Marshall Terrill
Author, Reporter, Documentarian
A tool like Pressbooks that efficiently and consistently outputs the files you need when you need them takes a lot of waste off the table and allows you to focus on the things that really matter.
Will Bergkamp
Will Bergkamp
Editor In Chief, Fortress Press