Pressbooks vs Vivliostyle
Pressbooks
pressbooks.comVivliostyle
vivliostyle.orgSide by side
| Figure | Pressbooks | Vivliostyle |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $10/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 7 | 1 |
| Spec score · Book Layout Software | 8.6 (#3) | 8.2 (#10) |
| Founded | 2011 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | The foundation lists its location as Minami-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama 336-0015, Japan. |
| Integrations | Pressbooks Enterprise LTI integration works with Canvas, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard. | Viewer can display HTML files hosted on GitHub or Gist, and it can be copied into a public directory on a web server for website use. |
| Purpose | Pressbooks helps authors and educational institutions create, adapt, and share accessible digital books and learning materials. | Vivliostyle is an open-source typesetting project for digital and web publishing based on web standards. |
| Self-hosting | Pressbooks can be installed on a self-managed server using a WordPress Multisite setup and the recommended Bedrock configuration. | The Viewer is downloadable and can run from a user-controlled web server, while CLI runs locally or in server-side workflows. |
| Support | Enterprise customers receive personalized onboarding, end-user training, troubleshooting, responsive service, and webinars. | The project directs users to documentation, GitHub contribution channels and a Slack development community. |
| What it does | Pressbooks is a WordPress Multisite based book content-management system for publishing webbooks and exporting books to digital, print and XML formats. | Vivliostyle is an open-source CSS typesetting ecosystem for producing paginated digital and print publications with web technologies. |
Plans
Pressbooks
- Free TrialFree
- Single Author$12 a month
- Collaboration$40 a month
- Single Author$120 a year
- Collaboration$400 a year
- Institutional Network$5,999 a year
- Shared Network$15,999 a year
In their own words
Pressbooks
Pressbooks has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Vivliostyle
Vivliostyle is an open-source typesetting project for digital and web publishing based on web standards. Vivliostyle Viewer presents HTML with CSS typesetting in a browser and can display EPUB files and web publications. The command-line tool typesets HTML and CSS and exports PDFs, including PDFs generated from EPUB files. For print production, its PRESS-READY option supports PDF/X-1a output and requires Ghostscript and Xpdf.
Vivliostyle Pub is a web application for editing text, Markdown, or HTML and previewing typesetting; its new version is in alpha. Themes are distributed as npm packages and applied through vivliostyle.config.js. Viewer can display HTML hosted on GitHub or Gist, or be copied into a public web-server directory. The CLI requires Node.js, and the installation tutorial lists macOS, Windows, and Linux. Vivliostyle uses AGPLv3, which allows modification and commercial use subject to reciprocal license terms. Its FAQ says publications made with the software need not publish their HTML or CSS source data. The project is maintained by Vivliostyle Foundation.