About Pressbooks

Pressbooks supports blended and online learning with an intuitive authoring platform for educational material, an extensive directory of public books and open educational resources (OER), and secure methods of delivering content to the learning management system (LMS). Create or import content, add multimedia and interactive elements like quizzes, integrate content into the LMS, deliver content online and in multiple downloadable formats, and assess and track student learning—all with one easy-to-use platform.

Being founded in 2011 by Hugh McGuire (founder of Librivox and Rebus Foundation), for the past decade, Pressbooks has been  helping new models of book publishing emerge. Over the years, Pressbooks evolved into the platform of choice in the open education community, supporting the early adopters of OER at institutions like the University of Hawaii and SUNY, and organizations like the Unizin Consortium, eCampus Ontario, and BCcampus. The team has grown to include academics, instructional designers, artists, web developers, philosophers, and other out-of-the-box thinkers. Pressbooks’ headquarters is in Montreal, Canada, but team members live in five different cities across North and South America. We have developed a strong working fellowship based on shared principles. At every turn and every decision, we consider the principles Pressbooks was founded on: consistency and trust, accessibility and inclusion, respect for authors, user and academic freedom, and openness.