Based on our record, Google Play Books seems to be a lot more popular than Pressbooks. While we know about 108 links to Google Play Books, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Pressbooks. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
And see if your institution has a license for Pressbooks, which allows you to create your own multimedia book. Source: 12 months ago
I self published a history book with extensive maps. I prepared the manuscript online with Pressbooks https://pressbooks.com/, and published with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/. Very satisfied with both. The book grew out of my website http://ravensworthstory.org/. I briefly describe the process of preparing maps for the book here... Source: over 2 years ago
So, I am aware of Pressbooks, which uses Wordpress. Also, Booktype, which looks like a fairly complicated system to set up. Finally, I can think of Open Monograph Press, which takes the complication process even further. Source: almost 3 years ago
You also will find a ton of contemporary (and copyright free) books on https://books.google.com/ in many languages, which I find way more amazing to read today than books looking back on that time with today's mindset and all... A favorite of mine is "Lebenserinnerungen", by Werner von Siemens, 1892: https://www.google.ch/books/edition/Lebenserinnerungen/SkIOAAAAYAAJ It's a lovely topic to dive into and adjust... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago
> The fact is that I think that there is not much written word, to actually train a sensible model on. A lot of books don't have OCRed scans, or a digital version. https://books.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago
Searching for "google books" in google leads to https://books.google.com/ which no longer allows you to read any of your books. https://play.google.com/books is the site to read your purchased books now. Google search does not show https://play.google.com/books in its results at all. Thought it was some weird personalization quirk, but seems others have had the same issue:... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Please use google https://google.com , https://groups.google.com , news.google.com/newspapers, books.google.com, scholar.google.com , https://archive.org https://yandex.com (the only image reverse search which actually works, google's got broken). Source: 6 months ago
I have no idea why, but ever since this new update, Chrome has become completely unusable. Every single search I make only retrieves books.google.com links. Nothing near relevant to what I want. I am not sure how to fix this issue. All help is greatly appreciated! Source: 7 months ago
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