Presentation at Book Expo / IDPF about 5 experiments publishers should be doing, and how PressBooks can help them do it. http://pressbooks.com

1. 5 Experiments
Every Publisher
Should Be Doing
TODAY
(and how PressBooks can help)

2. I am Hugh McGuire:
- Founder of PressBooks.com (online book
production software)
- Founder of LibriVox.org (free public
domain audiobooks)
On Twitter: @hughmcguire

4. PressBooks.com
is a
simple online tool to make:
-- a beautiful EPUB / Mobi
-- a beautiful typeset PDF
-- a beautiful webbook
-- Docbook and other XML output
Used by big publishers, individual authors,
and everything in between.

5. PLEASE USE
OUR
SOFTWARE

6. Session title: “Content-centric
publishing workflows.”
... and one of the things we are to
discuss is:
“the radically more efficient
workflows that these types of
solutions enable.”

7. I don’t think efficiency really
matters.

8. OK. So.
5 Experiments Every Publisher
Should Be Doing ...

9. 1.
(Kindle) Singles / Shorts etc.
(eg. Harvard Business Review Press)

11. 2.
Digital Only Imprint
(eg. Fortress Press)

13. 3.
Web samples
(with lots of content).
(eg. O’Reilly Media)

16. 4.
Online subscription-based books.
(eg. Say Books)

18. 5.
All of it!
(eg. no one, yet)

19. PLEASE USE
OUR
SOFTWARE

20. PressBooks
admin interface:

27. PressBooks:
Outputs

28. PressBooks
output:
ebook
(ibooks)

30. PressBooks output:
typeset PDF for print
or print on demand

33. PressBooks output:
mobile web

34. PressBooks output:
web
(with social features)

35. Tools like PressBooks
ARE
more efficient ...

36. ..but efficiency isn’t going
to “save” anyone.

37. What will “save” us is figuring
out how all this efficiency can
help us
connect readers and writers
in “new” ways.

38. Nice things
people say about
PressBooks:

39. “PressBooks has been great for our digital singles publishing
program. Its easy input and multiple outputs have given us a
quicker way to produce content for our readers.”
-- Ania Wieckowski, Managing Editor, Harvard Business Review Press
"PressBooks is a godsend. All the technicalities of ebook
production no longer require my attention. I can concentrate
on my work: writing."
-- Nath Jones, self-published author
"[PressBooks is] an amazing tool, and if you’re already
familiar with how WordPress works, then you’ll find it even
more incredible."
-- Jane Friedman, Professor of e-media, University of Cincinnati

40. We’d like to experiment
with you.
Hugh McGuire
hugh@pressbooks.com