You might be interested in exploring Pressbooks if you're looking for an easy, online publishing platform to create an open access book, such as an open education resources (OER). It can also be used to design books that you intend to print.
Pressbooks has templates that can be used to design and format any kind of book, including:
Pressbooks is an open-source tool with documentation available online. Here are some selected sections from the official Pressbooks User Guide to help get you started.
Bring Your Content Into Pressbooks
Control Your Book's Privacy Settings
Edit Content with the Visual & Text Editors
Create and Display Contributors
Create and Display Glossary Terms
Add Footnotes or Chapter Endnotes
Enable Annotation with Hypothesis
Create Interactive Content with H5P
Make Your Book Accessible and Inclusive
Fix Common Formatting Problems
Support Multilingual Publications
Restore and Permanently Delete Content
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