Add content to your book

You can start adding content straight into your book via the Organise option in the side-menu.

Front matter

Front matter can include title page and copyright notice, acknowledgements, introduction, preface, forward or prologue. Pressbooks lets you specify 21 types of front  matter. You can include as much (or as little) front matter in your book as you like.

Pressbooks guide instructions for creating and editing front matter.

Title page

It is best practice to add a title page to your book. The title page can include:

• Year of publication
• Copyright
• eISBN
• DOI
• Recommended citation
• Contributors
• Creative commons licence

Example of a title page.

Moving and creating chapters and parts

The Pressbooks user guide has instructions on how to:

• Organise your book – add new parts, chapters, front and back matter, and all the other types of content.
• Add Parts
• Add Chapters
• Edit content with the Visual and Text editors
• Embed multimedia

The next section in our guide has tips on importing an existing Word document to create your book content.