Alternatives to Pressbooks
A web-based platform for writing and publishing digital books and open educational resources. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Pressbooks
A web-based platform for writing and publishing digital books and open educational resources.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Pressbooks.
Reedsy Studio
A browser-based writing app for authors that formats a manuscript into a finished book as you write.
Reedsy Studio is a freemium browser writing app that formats a book as you write and supports real-time collaboration, without open textbook or H5P features.
Kotobee Author
A desktop authoring tool for building interactive ebooks and exporting them to EPUB, apps and web formats.
Kotobee Author is a desktop tool for interactive ebooks exporting to EPUB, HTML5 and apps with SCORM and LTI, with advanced features in paid plans.
Atticus
A book writing and formatting tool for producing print books and ebooks on any desktop platform.
Atticus is paid desktop and web software for writing and formatting print books and ebooks, with 17 templates and published upfront pricing.
Vellum
A macOS app for formatting manuscripts into ebooks and print-ready books.
Vellum is a paid macOS app that formats manuscripts into ebooks and print books, working offline instead of as an online service.
Jutoh
A desktop ebook editor that creates EPUB, Kindle and print-ready books from Word or text files.
Jutoh is a paid desktop editor on Windows, macOS and Linux that builds EPUB and Kindle books from Word or text files, with no subscription.
mdBook
A command-line tool that builds online books from a folder of Markdown files.
mdBook is a free, MPL-2.0 command-line tool that builds online books from Markdown as static sites, aimed at web output rather than EPUB or print.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Sigil
An EPUB editor with a code view and a visual view side by side, plus validation and metadata tools.
EPUBCheck
The official W3C conformance checker that validates EPUB publications from the command line.
Calibre
The ebook library manager: view, convert, edit and catalogue books in every major format, and talk to e-readers.
PageEdit
A visual editor for the XHTML pages inside EPUB ebooks, from the Sigil project.
