Book Publishing with WordPress and PressBooks

That book you’ve been sitting on for years, just won’t write itself. In an age of digital everything, social media, and individual brands, how best to write and publish longform content?

WordPress can be a good tool to capture and manage writing and publishing books, longform prose, and other semantic content.

PressBooks is an open source WordPress plugin. You can easily export your books to Mobi (Kindle), EPUB (Apple iBooks, Nook), PDF (print-on-demand), and make a web version of your book.

If you know how to blog, you know how to make a beautiful ebook and a lovely typeset PDF. Many collaborators can work in distributed teams, and your book can be sold through Kindle, Apple iBooks, Nook, and other ebook retailers. It’s “one button publishing.”

(We might also discuss some not-yet-released apps for collaborative writing and editing semantic content in teams.)

Let’s get started with WordPress and PressBooks!