Open, Webby Book PublishingHugh McGuire
- PressBooks (etc.): @hughmcguireKirk Biglione - Oxford Media Works: @kirkbiglioneJohn Maxwell - Simon Fraser University: @jmaxsfu

1. What is a Book?
(Hugh) 2. Overview of what’s happening now (Kirk) 3. Proposal & examples of some other ways (Kirk) 4. More examples from SFU, with whys5. Presentation of PressBooks - a tool to make some of this easy

Question:What is a book?

WORDS

STRUCTURE WORDS

IMAGES & MEDIA STRUCTURE WORDS

IMAGES & MEDIA STRUCTURE WORDS
META DATA

IMAGES & MEDIA STRUCTURE WORDS
META DATA PRINT BOOK

IMAGES & MEDIA STRUCTURE WORDS
EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK

IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE
STRUCTURE WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK

IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE
STRUCTURE WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE?IMAGES &
MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURE WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES
& MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

CONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE?
IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE?
IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT
ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT
ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT
ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT BOOK REVIEWS AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT
ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT BOOK REVIEWS FLAMEWARS AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT
ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT LENDING BOOK REVIEWS FLAMEWARS AUDIO

PRINTBOOK

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT
ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT LENDING BOOK REVIEWS FLAMEWARS AUDIO

Proposal: If that’s what books
*are*, then weneed to change how we make them.

(and maybe it needn’t be
so hard to start changing).

Meet the #dpplatypus@kirkbiglione

EPUB

InDesignFile->Save As->HTML5 (another egg)

A web-native CMS

Geek Slide summarized

Link Bundlehttp://bit.ly/ee9vgOPhoto Creditsepub egghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wasabicube/275001052/format eggshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/450371204
/email: kirkb@oxfordmediaworks.comtwitter: @kirkbiglione

3 reasons why we takethe
Web seriously forbook publishing

Pragmatists argument:Web is simply a
superiorplatform for developinge-publications

Liberty argument: Open, transparentstandards are
increasingly valuable in an age of would-be monopolists.

Futurists argument:The web is THE
publishingplatform of our time...

In 2050, the platform wellbe
using wont be areplacement of the Web,but the evolution of it.

With that in mind,How to
re-imaginebook publishing as ifthe web mattered?

1. Ickmull:Printing the Web inInDesignHTML
to IDML via XSLThttp://code.google.com/p/ickmull

2. The Book of MPub
(2010)An end-to-end book developmentproject, entirely in WordPress, openpeer reviewed, with simultaneousprint, epub, web incarnations.http://tkbr.ccsp.sfu.ca/bookofmpub

3. Editorial workflowsupport in WordPressOngoing
graduate studentR&D, going for low-hangingfruit

PressBooks:An open source,webby,book publishing toolbuilt
on WordPress.

* Adapts WordPress admin forbook
production workflows

* Generates clean, well-formatted books
in multipleoutputs* Makes it easy for an editorialteam to work together (I think)

Export formats:* Web (HTML)* ePub*
Print-on-Demand ready PDF(note: this was done Sunday afternoon)* InDesign ready XML

And now ...

... for the foolhardy ...

...a live demo!

(What could possibly gowrong?)

backup screenshots

pressbooks.com ...still in private alpha(but
open special fortoday only!)

Hugh McGuire:hughmcguire@gmail.comKirk Biglione:kbiglione@gmail.comJohn Maxwell:jmax.sfu@gmail.com