diff --git a/tutorial-1.ipynb b/tutorial-1.ipynb
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@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
     "    - Adding collections to catalogs\n",
     "    - Adding items to collections\n",
     "- Views (sub-catalogs)\n",
-    "- Publishing catalogs\n",
     "\n",
     "\n",
     "The examples here use the [test catalog in the sat-stac repo](https://github.com/developmentseed/sat-stac/tree/master/test/catalog). The directory structure of the test catalog looks like the following, where the catalog.json files under the landsat-8-l1 and sentinel-2-l1c are `Collection`s, the rest of the catalog.json files are simple `Catalog`s, and the item.json files are `Item`s.\n",
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   {
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    "execution_count": 1,
-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": true
+   },
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "from satstac import Catalog\n",
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    "execution_count": 2,
-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
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     {
      "name": "stdout",
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    "cell_type": "code",
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+   "metadata": {
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+   },
    "outputs": [
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      "name": "stdout",
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    "cell_type": "code",
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-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
    "outputs": [
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      "name": "stdout",
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    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 5,
-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
    "outputs": [
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    "cell_type": "code",
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-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
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+   },
    "outputs": [
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   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 7,
-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
    "outputs": [
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      "name": "stdout",
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   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 8,
-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
    "outputs": [
     {
      "name": "stdout",
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   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 9,
-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
    "outputs": [
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      "name": "stdout",
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   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 10,
-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
    "outputs": [
     {
      "name": "stdout",
@@ -474,26 +493,6 @@
     "        ├── catalog.json\n",
     "```"
    ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "## Publishing a catalog<a name='publish' />\n",
-    "\n",
-    "The STAC spec allows for all of the hierarchical links to be stored as relative paths, except for self which must be an absolute path. However, when creating a Catalog that is going to be moved elsewhere, absolute paths do not yet make sense, so sat-stac keeps self links as relative.\n",
-    "\n",
-    "The Catalog can be published with a new endpoint by calling publish with the new root link. This is the absolute link to the root catalog. The publish() function will traverse the tree and update all of the self links in every Catalog, Collection, and Item to be an absolute path using the provided root link."
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 11,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "mycat.publish('https://my.other.cat')"
-   ]
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {
diff --git a/tutorial-2.ipynb b/tutorial-2.ipynb
index a3db153..ffb37c6 100644
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@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@
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    "cell_type": "code",
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-   "metadata": {},
+   "metadata": {
+    "collapsed": false
+   },
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+   "metadata": {
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