A landing page, not a feed
Instead of the usual reverse-chronological list of posts, visitors land on a proper book splash page: title, summary, and a top-level table of contents that reads like the front matter of a real textbook.
A Blogger template for authors, built for the AI era
Turn an expert into an author.
Turn a blog into a book.
The AvailaBooks template is a free, self-service Blogger template that renders your posts as chapters of a book — complete with a landing page, a searchable table of contents, and a full chapter menu. Pair it with a generative-AI writing workflow and a professor can go from lecture notes to a working first draft of a textbook in a single day.
One template, three ways to read the book
Under the hood, your book is just a series of Blogger posts. On the surface, readers never see "a blog" — they see a book.
Book-wide search
Readers can search across every chapter at once to find the term, formula, or example they're looking for — no digging through months of blog archives.
A detailed table of contents
A persistent menu breaks the book down to the section level, so navigating between chapters feels like flipping through a table of contents — not scrolling a blog.
Want to see it before you build it? Browse An Introduction to First Person History Interpretation, a real course textbook published entirely on the AvailaBooks template — landing page, search, and chapter menu included.
Every post you publish becomes a chapter. Every chapter becomes a page in the book. You write in Blogger's familiar editor, or use the provided prompt to have your AI Assistant generate HTML you can just paste in; your readers experience a textbook.
Why textbooks are suddenly easy to write
Writing a textbook used to demand three rare skills in one person: deep domain expertise, strong writing craft, and the discipline to sustain years of work alongside a full teaching load. Generative AI just removed most of the burden from the second and third.
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Build the outline
Working with an AI agent, a professor can develop a full table of contents — the book's outline — in an hour or two.
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Draft the book
Armed with her own lecture notes or class video transcripts, the professor and her AI agent can build out an initial draft — tailored to exactly how she teaches the class — in a few more hours.
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Polish, chapter by chapter
From there, polishing typically runs an hour or two per chapter — refining voice, checking accuracy, and shaping it to the course.
The point: a professor who is a genuine expert in her subject can now produce a textbook with exactly the content her class needs, in exactly the way she wants to teach it — with relatively little effort. The AvailaBooks template exists to make publishing that book just as easy.
AvailaBooks.com: free textbooks; inexpensive assessment
AvailaBooks.com is a companion effort focused on one goal: reducing the cost of collegiate textbooks — ideally to zero. While the AvailBooks Blogger template provide an entirely self-service publishing workflow, AvailaBooks.com is a service that can help professors build auto-graded assessments for their books, and distribute those assessments to students and institutions at a low cost.
Modern tools make it possible to produce a high-quality textbook with far less effort than ever before, and to distribute it at zero variable cost. Our model follows from that fact: the textbook itself should be free. Every student should be able to read the book without paying for it.
Where cost still belongs is in what a free book alone can't provide — authentic, automatically graded assessment, tied back into your institution's learning management system. That's the part students or institutions pay for: the assessment and score reporting infrastructure, not the words on the page. Authors who build that assessment layer with the AvailaBooks.com team share in that revenue.
Want graded assignments built in? We can help.
If you'd like to integrate assignments into your book that are auto-graded, with results flowing straight into your school's LMS, reach out to the team at AvailaBooks.com. They bring decades of experience building self-grading assessments for classes with thousands of concurrent students.
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Access
data.world
Airtable
JavaScript
Python
SQL
Graphical diagramming tools
AI-powered oral exams
The book stays free. Authors who partner with the AvailaBooks.com team to build these assessments earn a royalty on every sale of the assessment-enabled edition of their book — a share of the part students and institutions do pay for.
Whatever platform your assignments live in, the team can work with you to design authentic, automatically graded assessments built for your book and your class, and integrate them directly into you book.
Your textbook could exist by tomorrow.
Bring your lecture notes or video transcripts, a free afternoon, and an AI agent. The AvailaBooks template will handle how it looks. AvailaBooks.com can handle how it's graded.
Interested in authoring opportunities?
Tell the AvailaBooks.com team a bit about yourself and your course, and they'll follow up about building auto-graded assessments for your book.
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