@christina.hendricks - we’re nearly there with the print cover, and I’m happy to report that the book is now in Open Textbook Library, OER Commons, MERLOT, and will soon be in the BCcampus collection!
I’m thinking that once the POD version is ready, we can add this information to the book homepage, perhaps along with a link to the project home where people can contact you (if they want to help with additions or expansions to the book or other books in the series). How does this sound?
It may also be good at this point to share the announcement in the big listservs in your field — Philosop, Philos-L, and the like — so the book is more prominently in the eyes of instructors who may want to adopt it. What do you think?
The POD link we can add to the book homepage, similarly to how the team on the Research Methods in Psychology book have done: https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/psychmethods4e/ (see the ‘Buy Book’ button). As for the link to the project homepage, I’d suggest adding this either to the short or long book description. Here’s an example from our publishing guide, where we’ve added a sentence to the short description.
As for the emails to the listservs, if you wanted, you could wait until the POD version was all set up (we’re still waiting on a few things for the moment). I can let you know as soon as this is ready!
Thanks, @apurva. I’ll add the link to the project pages on the short book description. I already added attributions for the cover artwork and design, because there wasn’t an easy way to put that front and centre otherwise that I could see (and people going to the book page seeing the cover might want to know how to attribute the image in case they use it on blog post announcements, e.g.). I added some html to get the line breaks in there…not sure that was a good idea!
I have already sent the book announcement out to one listserv but I’ll wait on others for the POD to be available!
Good idea with the cover attributions, and the line breaks! Text in the short description is formatted via HTML, and what you’ve done makes the distinctions between the book description and cover design information clear.
Hi @apurva: I was checking something on the Philosophy of Mind book PDFs and noticed that there was still the issue with the not having the ability to navigate correctly through the PDF with the sidebar navigation (as discussed in the thread above).
Maybe the situation was: the chapters part has to be visible for the export, and then made invisible later. Maybe I exported at some point without making the chapters part visible. So I just redid both PDFs (print and digital) and the navigation appears to be better, but not perfect. There is now at least a “chapters” dropdown that has all the chapters. But each chapter has both a title and then the author in the navigation. This may not be something that can be fixed, I’m guessing, since the author name is one of the headings. But I wanted to double check whether there was a fix for this that I forgot and I’ve just messed it up again with the new exports!
Hi Christina, good catch. All the chapters will have had to be visible in both web & exports prior to exporting the files. As for the issue of seeing the chapter author names in the bookmarks bar in the PDF, this has been noted by the Pressbooks team. They are working to resolve this issue (and others identified during this check) via development.
Here’s the full list of issues identified:
Subtitles listed in same hierarchy as chapters
Chapter authors listed in same hierarchy as chapters
Title page and half-title page identified by heading text
Copyright page not bookmarked
Custom title page contains illogically nested information
Chapters all listed in hierarchy under the last front matter post when a book has only one part
Chapter owners are listed as bookmarks
Chapter endnotes appear nested underneath a chapter
I’ll let you know when I have an update from their team.
@metatechne We had a philosophy prof provide another nice blurb of praise for the Philosophy of Mind book, and I wondered if you could take a quick look at it before I put it in. It’s in the “Frontmatter & Backmatter” folder, inside the “Philosophy of Mind” folder in there. Do you have access to that folder?
I also added the blurb we already have in the book, just because I’m not sure I ever ran that by you for copy editing. So may as well do both, if you have time. They are just short paragraphs.
