People are now accustomed to getting their content for free on the Internet, but they’re still are in the habit of paying for ebooks and print books. That makes ebooks the new blogs–blogs you can scale and monetize. And with consumers’ credit cards stored in bookstore platforms, people can buy your book instantaneously, on impulse.

Blogging platforms like WordPress revolutionized the way we consume our information by enabling anyone who wished to build their own media platform and amass their own audience to their self-created brand.

Similarly, digital platforms like Pressbooks.com have democratized publishing by enabling individuals to take control of the part of publishing they used to need traditional publishing gatekeepers to accomplish.

In the case of Pressbooks, that’s book production, which just a few years ago required a costly investment in graphic design and Web development (ebooks are websites). Struggling indie authors had no choice but to hire professionals or pay author services companies a significant amount up front for this service, eating into their revenues. Pressbooks lets you produce professional-looking designs without hiring any of these people or learning anything about design.

The publishing system has undergone radical transformation too. Nowadays, you can publish and distribute your book directly to the iBooks, Kindle, Smashwords, Nook, Createspace and many other platforms–revolutionary.

At Pressbooks, our goal is to liberate you from obsolete publishing processes and unnecessary gatekeepers and free you to publish however and wherever you want.

This book will show you how others have successfully done so, using Pressbooks to write their destiny–and continue innovating in publishing themselves.

We hope we inspire you to do the same.

Write. Publish. Repeat.

Elizabeth Mays
Marketing Manager
Pressbooks