The Authoring Dashboard
Book Info
The Book Info page is where you enter all the metadata about your book. This includes information such as the book’s various contributors, the copyright license you’ve chosen, the ISBN associated with your book, and more.
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In Pressbooks, the Book Info page is where you put information about your book. In the book publishing industry, this is called “metadata”. Metadata allows book stores and libraries to accurately categorize a book and makes it easier for readers to find by answering questions like: What is this book’s title? Who is the author? When was it published? and What is the book about?
Some book info (metadata) is required and will be filled in by default when you create your book. Required metadata allows Pressbooks to build your book’s home page, automatically generate the cover, title page, and copyright notice in your book exports, and meet the metadata requirements of ebook sellers for your EPUB exports. In general, we recommend adding as much information as you can when creating your book.
General Book Information
This section includes basic information about your book.
| Required information |
Optional Information |
| Title | Short title |
| Author | Subtitle |
| Language | Editor, Translator, Reviewer, Illustrator, and Contributor |
| Publisher | |
| Publisher City | |
| Publication Date | |
| On-sale Date | |
| Ebook ISBN (International Standard Book Number) | |
| Print ISBN (International Standard Book Number) | |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) |
Title: Pressbooks will automatically fill in this section with the title you chose when creating your book, though it can be edited at any time. Your book’s title will be displayed on your webbook’s home page and included in the automatically generated title page and half-title page of your export files. It may also be included the running content of your PDF files. The title is a required metadata element for EPUB exports.
Short Title: A shorter version of your title can be entered if your full book title is too long for the running content in your PDFs. This field is optional.
Subtitle: Like the title, this information will automatically populate the title page and webbook homepage if entered. The use of a subtitle is optional.
Author: The author name is displayed on your webbook’s landing page and included in the automatically generated title page of your exports. This field is a required metadata element for EPUB exports, and is populated with the username of the person who created your book by default.
Editor, Translator, Reviewer, Illustrator, and Contributor: These metadata fields can be filled in to properly credit the contributions of individuals who filled specific roles in the creation of the book. All contributor fields except for Author are optional. Learn more about creating and displaying book-level contributors.
Publisher: Publisher information will appear on the webbook homepage, in the automatically g