Create Your Book
You can use Pressbooks to create and publish original new work. If you’re working with openly licensed content, such as educational resources (OER), you can make personal copies of existing work and adapt or remix content to create something new.
Follow the steps below to create a book.
- In your admin dashboard click the Create a book button.
If you do not see this option, contact your network manager.
The “Create a new book” page opens. - Type in your desired Site Name. This is the URL where your webbook will live. The site name cannot be changed later, so choose this value carefully.
- Type your desired Book Title.
The book title can be easily changed at any point in the future. - Choose whether your webbook should be visible to the public or not and click the corresponding option.
You can change this setting at any point in the future. - Click Create Book.
✔️ The book will be created for you and you will be taken to its dashboard.
Learn More: Copy, Adapt, Remix
Learn more about how to copy, adapt, and remix content from existing Pressbooks works through the following pages of the Pressbooks User Guide.
- Clone (copy) an entire book in order to create your own personal copy and/or to incorporate your own edits, additions, and updates
- Import content into Pressbooks (less than an entire book) in order to adapt and remix it with other content
Once you clone a book or import content into a new book, you can use the “Organize” dashboard and the visual editor to further adapt the book and make it your own.
