{"id":43,"date":"2021-02-11T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/chapter\/publish\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T04:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T04:19:23","slug":"publish","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/chapter\/publish\/","title":{"raw":"Publish","rendered":"Publish"},"content":{"raw":"Once you have finalized your book and exported your files, you may decide to upload your Print PDF exports to print-on-demand services to create physical copies of your book or distribute your EPUB files through any of the many ebook book retailers.\n\nPressbooks allows you to add a 'Buy Book' link to your book's home page which will direct visitors to online retailers which allow them to purchase physical or digital copies. The <strong>Publish<\/strong> menu in the left sidebar allows you to configure the locations where your book can be purchased. To use this feature:\n<ol>\n \t<li>Select '<strong>Publish<\/strong>' from the admin menu of your book.<\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Enter the URL for your book's listing<\/strong> with any of the relevant distribution services (Amazon, O'Reilly, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, iBooks, or Other)<\/li>\n \t<li>Click '<strong>Save Changes<\/strong>'<strong>\n<\/strong><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-99 size-large\" style=\"orphans: 1; text-align: initial; font-size: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-28-at-11.40.43-AM-1024x566.png\" alt=\"The interface of the Publish Menu\" width=\"1024\" height=\"566\"><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nIf you add one or more URLs, a <strong>BUY BOOK<\/strong> button will be displayed on the homepage of your webbook and in the title bar of the reading interface.\n\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-3112 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-28-at-11.42.52-AM-e1633475584663.png\" alt=\"The buy book button is shown on the home page of a webbook\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\">\n\nClicking this link will bring readers to a page which provides links to your book's purchase page with any of the retailers you have listed.\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-28-at-11.43.05-AM-e1633475649960.png\" alt=\"The Buy Book page showing links to online retailers\" width=\"1000\" height=\"851\">","rendered":"<p>Once you have finalized your book and exported your files, you may decide to upload your Print PDF exports to print-on-demand services to create physical copies of your book or distribute your EPUB files through any of the many ebook book retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Pressbooks allows you to add a &#8216;Buy Book&#8217; link to your book&#8217;s home page which will direct visitors to online retailers which allow them to purchase physical or digital copies. The <strong>Publish<\/strong> menu in the left sidebar allows you to configure the locations where your book can be purchased. To use this feature:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Select &#8216;<strong>Publish<\/strong>&#8216; from the admin menu of your book.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enter the URL for your book&#8217;s listing<\/strong> with any of the relevant distribution services (Amazon, O&#8217;Reilly, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, iBooks, or Other)<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8216;<strong>Save Changes<\/strong>&#8216;<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99 size-large\" style=\"orphans: 1; text-align: initial; font-size: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-28-at-11.40.43-AM-1024x566.png\" alt=\"The interface of the Publish Menu\" width=\"1024\" height=\"566\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you add one or more URLs, a <strong>BUY BOOK<\/strong> button will be displayed on the homepage of your webbook and in the title bar of the reading interface.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3112 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-28-at-11.42.52-AM-e1633475584663.png\" alt=\"The buy book button is shown on the home page of a webbook\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clicking this link will bring readers to a page which provides links to your book&#8217;s purchase page with any of the retailers you have listed.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-28-at-11.43.05-AM-e1633475649960.png\" alt=\"The Buy Book page showing links to online retailers\" width=\"1000\" height=\"851\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-43","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":32,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/32"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/43\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbook.ums.edu.my\/userguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}