Launch Quickstart + $179 Service Credit
Pricing is hard. Launching is hard. We get it.Many authors struggle with how to price their book or course, and how to plan a successful launch.We want to help you with that.
For$129you get a$179 creditand afocused 30-minute session with a Leanpub founderto design your book’s launch and pricing strategy.Yes, you read that right. More than you paid.
This event is for current Leanpub authors seeking expert guidance on pricing and launching their book or course. For just $129, you’ll get a personal launch and pricing session with Leanpub co-founder Peter Armstrong or Len Epp to help you confidently set your launch and pricing plan. The $179 credit can be applied toward marketing packages (including spots on The Shelf), concierge import, AI translation, course creation, or a Leanpub membership.
Since the $179 credit is more than the $129 session fee, it's like you get paid to have a personalized 30 minute launch planning session — with one of Leanpub's founders.
This session is a Zoom call, which you schedule when signing up.
Leanpub puts authors first.
Earn an 80% royalty per sale.
Publish to PDF, iPad and Kindle from one manuscript. (We make PDF and EPUB versions for you).
Write using your favorite tools. Preview or publish new book versions with one click.
Write on your own computer and sync using GitHub or Dropbox.
Publish your book early to get reader feedback, and publish new versions as often as you like.
Choose your own minimum and suggested prices, from $0 or $7.99 to $500.($9 to $29 is typical.)
You keep the rights to your book, not us. You can do a deal with a publisher at any time.
Produce a print-ready PDF or InDesign export of your finished book with one click.
Write
- Write your book insimple plain text using our great writing features
- Create ebooks in multiple formatswith one click from a single source text
- You can also write usingyour own plain text writing tool
- You can alsoupload a book if you prefer your own process to ours
Publish
- Publish instantly withone click
- Easily update your published bookany time
- Publishearly and serially using our in-progress publishing features
- Interact with readers toimprove your book and find out what they think
Sell
- Instantly put your book up for sale
- Earn a royalty of80% per sale
- Customize agreat-looking web page to help sell your book
- Set your own prices using our amazing variable pricing model
- Easilyshare your royalties with co-authors or good causes
- You can alsosell your book elsewhere if you want to!
Finally, a royalty rate that puts authors first.
When you publish your book with Leanpub,
you earn an80% royalty.
Why is this royalty rate important?It means you earn $16.00 on the sale of a $20.00 book. If you worked with a conventional publisher who sold your book for $32.00, you'd typically make just $1.60! (The publisher would usually get about $16.00, and you would get about 10% of that.)With royalty rates this high, people will actually choose to pay more since they can see how much you will earn as an author.
You are free to publish your book elsewhere at the same time as you publish it on Leanpub. However, other platforms may not allow you to publish in two places at once. If you want to try an exclusive service, you can "retire" your book on Leanpub any time, and you can also come back and "unretire" your book if you conclude you were making more money on Leanpub.
You set your own prices using our variable pricing model and you can change them anytime. This means you can instantly change your prices in response to audience feedback or special events. It also means you can increase the price of your book over time, as you add more content, which is a great deal for people who buy your book early on.
If you publish your book on Leanpub, we will not get in the way if you later want to publish with a conventional publisher. In fact, this is a great outcome and it is one of the reasons Leanpub exists.We want unknown writers to be able to publish their books before they're finished, build an audience while they're writing, and then optionally go after a publishing contract. Some publishers may even let you publish your book on Leanpub until you finish it, and then take up the book into their own process when the time is right. That's exactly what happened withthis book. (If you're worried that a publisher won't accept a book that's already been published on Leanpub, then you should make sure to ask them before you publish here!)