[Research] Make books available via Internet Archive and OpenLibrary.org

[SevenSidedSquare]

User Story
As the Pressbooks librarian, I would like for open-licensed books to have PDF and EPUB versions stored on Internet Archive and for those books to also be listed on OpenLibrary.org. This will give users more places to discover Pressbooks books and will serve as an archive of those exported files.

Steel and I had a conversation with Brenton Cheng of Internet Archive, and this sounds very doable. We need to use their API to send a canonical link to the book, metadata, and EPUB/PDF files. After looking at the API, we should be able to take a sample book from Integrations and push it to Internet Archive with PDF and EPUB exports. Once that's done, we can check that the metadata looks good and that we can link to the canonical book.

Internet Archive indicated that they would then include these in OpenLibrary.

Under what conditions do we send the exported files?

• Book must have file exports produced
• Book must be public
• Book must have file downloads available on the page

From a marketing standpoint, it would benefit us to create more brand awareness at the same time. We should insert a line of text into the PDF/EPUB files to say "This book was made with Pressbooks." with a link to Pressbooks.com.