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Empower Your Community with a Pressbooks Enterprise Network
Pressbooks is a versatile, user-friendly publishing platform educators rely on to create, adapt, and share accessible, interactive, web-first books. Pressbooks partners with organizations to support institutional and library publishing programs, open education initiatives, curriculum development projects, and more. Today Pressbooks works with over 500 educational institutions, including colleges, universities, non-profit organizations, higher education systems and consortia.

Partnering with Libraries
Empowering knowledge sharing is at the heart of Pressbooks’ mission as a company. Some of Pressbooks’ longest-standing client relationships are with libraries and library-based publishers.

Pressbooks provides libraries and other organizations with a hassle-free, SaaS-based version of their publishing platform for them to deploy to their communities. With this tool set, Pressbooks support libraries’ mandate to make knowledge widely available and accessible. Often this happens through open education initiatives supported by libraries, as well as other library-anchored projects.

What can you do with Pressbooks?
Pressbooks’ platform empowers institutions, educators, and creators to easily develop digital content they can share and improve. With Pressbooks you can:

  • Create: Authors work solo or collaborate with a team to develop beautiful, accessible digital books and content, optimized for learning.
  • Adapt: Pressbooks makes it easy to find, clone, revise, and remix openly-licensed learning materials.
  • Share: Use Pressbooks to select licensing and sharing permissions and make your work discoverable and accessible in multiple formats.
  • Enrich: Create interactive learning materials and incorporate video, images, and other multimedia to engage learners and readers.

Recent Pressbooks Webinar: How Pressbooks Supports the Open Education Journey - 1/29/25
The Pressbooks webinar on how to create content, find open content and publish in Pressbooks is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4JXeu1Tb0A. (view the slide deck here)

See what others are doing with Pressbooks
To see what others are creating with Pressbooks, visit the Pressbooks Directory. With this free, searchable index you can browse 6500+ open access books developed by hundreds of authors and publishers. For creators and educators interested in adapting or remixing existing digital content, Pressbooks makes it simple for clients to copy and adapt openly licensed books from the Directory.

Learn More
To learn how Pressbooks can support your institution, contact Pressbooks today by clicking here to get a customized demo.

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