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Publishing in Pressbooks

This is an introduction to using Pressbooks to self-publish.

Pressbooks Basics - Videos and Transcripts

Learn how to set up chapters, parts and front matter and where to insert your book's metadata.

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Learn how to apply a theme to your books. You'll also learn how to indicate your book preferences, such as paragraphs versus indents, blank pages between chapters, trim size, length of widows and orphans, and more.

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You can customize a theme by editing your book's  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML. 

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This tutorial explains how  to export your book from Pressbooks for upload and publication in the ebookstores and print-on-demand.

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Pressbooks Dashboard and Other Features

This video introduces Pressbook's dashboard. 

This video demonstration includes cloning and annotation features.

How to add Parts and Chapters & Front/Back Matter.

This video shows how to order Parts and Chapters.