{"id":30,"date":"2019-01-31T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/chapter\/delete-a-book\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:50:39","slug":"delete-a-book","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/chapter\/delete-a-book\/","title":{"raw":"Delete a Book","rendered":"Delete a Book"},"content":{"raw":"You may want to delete a book that you\u2019ve created on Pressbooks. To delete a book that you are an administrator for:\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li><strong>Hover over your book title<\/strong> in the top menu of Pressbooks and click \"<strong>Delete Book<\/strong>\"\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-56 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-from-2021-10-05-17-51-22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"106\" \/><\/li>\r\n \t<li>You'll be brought to a \"Delete Book\" page. <b>Check the box next to <\/b>\"<strong>I'm sure I want to permanently delete my site ...\"<\/strong>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-from-2021-10-05-17-53-02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"813\" height=\"253\" \/><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Click the \"<strong>Delete My Book Permanently<\/strong>\" button<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Pressbooks will send an automated email to the email address associated with your Pressbooks account. <strong>Confirm the deletion of your book by clicking the link in that confirmation email<\/strong>. Once you've confirmed the deletion of the book via email, the book will be removed from your Pressbooks account.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","rendered":"<p>You may want to delete a book that you\u2019ve created on Pressbooks. To delete a book that you are an administrator for:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Hover over your book title<\/strong> in the top menu of Pressbooks and click &#8220;<strong>Delete Book<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-56 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-from-2021-10-05-17-51-22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"106\" \/><\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll be brought to a &#8220;Delete Book&#8221; page. <b>Check the box next to <\/b>&#8220;<strong>I&#8217;m sure I want to permanently delete my site &#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-from-2021-10-05-17-53-02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"813\" height=\"253\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8220;<strong>Delete My Book Permanently<\/strong>&#8221; button<\/li>\n<li>Pressbooks will send an automated email to the email address associated with your Pressbooks account. <strong>Confirm the deletion of your book by clicking the link in that confirmation email<\/strong>. Once you&#8217;ve confirmed the deletion of the book via email, the book will be removed from your Pressbooks account.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-30","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":19,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30\/revisions\/148"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/19"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}