Become a Leanpub author
Leanpub makes it easy to create, publish, and sell ebooks or online courses while earning industry-leading royalties. With 80% royalties on purchases of 7ドル.99 or more (or 80% minus a small 0ドル.50 fee for purchases under 7ドル.99), your work earns what it deserves. For example, a 10ドル sale brings you 8,ドル and selling 5,000 copies at 20ドル could mean 80,000ドル in your pocket!
Leanpub has already paid out 15,087,612ドル.34 to authors. Whether you write in Markdown or upload PDF/EPUB files, Leanpub’s intuitive publishing tools simplify the process. Use our in-browser editor or sync with GitHub or Dropbox and publish your ebook with a single click. Plus, you decide when to release—during the writing process or upon completion.
As an academic, I like Leanpub because it lets me write and get my ideas out there quickly. Leanpub is simply the best place for publishing my books.
When previewing and publishing takes just one click, you can publish as you write, and build a community of readers around your work. This way, you can get feedback and make your book even better, as well as building buzz for your book before it's done...
Write your book in your web browser, or on your computer and sync with GitHub or Dropbox. Or if you have an ebook already, just upload it!
Preview or publish your ebook with one click. (Or if you're using GitHub writing mode, set up a post-commit hook to publish automatically with zero clicks.)
We automatically create an attractive book landing page for you, and we pay 80% royalties on purchases of 7ドル.99 and up. (Below 7ドル.99, we pay 80% minus 50 cents in royalties.) So, you earn 16ドル from a 20ドル book sale. Authors have earned over 14ドルM USD in royalties on Leanpub.
If you opt in to Leanpub discounts, we can promote your book for you, by including it in our weekly and monthly email sale newsletters, which are sent to over 100,000 readers. To promote your book even more, you can buy a featured spot in our newsletters along with a sponsored spot on The Shelf on our homepage.
Write your book in your web browser, or on your computer and sync with GitHub or Dropbox. Or if you have an ebook already, just upload it!
Preview or publish your ebook with one click. (Or if you're using GitHub writing mode, set up a post-commit hook to publish automatically with zero clicks.)
We automatically create an attractive book landing page for you, and we pay 80% royalties on purchases of 7ドル.99 and up. (Below 7ドル.99, we pay 80% minus 50 cents in royalties.) So, you earn 16ドル from a 20ドル book sale. Authors have earned over 14ドルM USD in royalties on Leanpub.
If you opt in to Leanpub discounts, we can promote your book for you, by including it in our weekly and monthly email sale newsletters, which are sent to over 100,000 readers. To promote your book even more, you can buy a featured spot in our newsletters along with a sponsored spot on The Shelf on our homepage.
This is the FAQ for Leanpub Author Memberships. If you're looking to learn more about Reader Memberships, please see the Reader Memberships page.
If you can't find what you're looking for below, chances are the answer is in our amazing Help Center which has hundreds of carefully-written articles and a number of lovingly-created videos answering the questions we've been asked over the years. Or, email our support team and one of us will get back to you.
Every Leanpub user can read and write on Leanpub. You can buy books and courses, build your Leanpub library, take courses, and even create your own books or courses. You can create books by writing in your browser or by uploading your own files, and you can create courses by writing in your browser. Leanpub also offers optional paid Memberships that give you additional capabilities. Author Memberships provide premium publishing and writing features. Reader Memberships provide access to about 2,000 "Free With Membership" books, plus book and course credits you can use toward purchasing any Leanpub books or courses.
Leanpub users do not have an Author Membership or a Reader Membership by default. Membership always refers to a paid subscription that adds extra benefits on top of what every Leanpub user can already do. This approach keeps things simple: all users can read, buy, and write on Leanpub, and Memberships are optional paid upgrades that unlock more value. If you don’t have a Membership, you still have full access to the standard reading and writing capabilities of Leanpub. If you choose to subscribe, you get a clear set of extra features tied to your Membership type.
Lots! You can write in your web browser in our plain text editor or visual editor, or upload PDF and EPUB files with our upload writing mode. You can preview or publish your books or courses up to 20 times per month. You can sell your books or courses on Leanpub and get paid the same amazing royalty rate as authors with an Author Membership. You can also create coupons, team discounts, bundles and tracks, and use all the other great marketing features we offer.
Leanpub Author Memberships give you access to premium authoring features like custom themes, print-ready PDF export, GitHub and Dropbox writing modes, Google Analytics, InDesign export and more. Different Author Membership levels include different premium features. We have four different Author Memberships, so there's one for you! To learn more about Author memberships, visit the Author Memberships page under the Authors menu.
We pay 80% on books and courses priced at 7ドル.99 and up. Below 7ドル.99, we pay 80% minus 50 cents. So, you earn 3ドル.50 from a 5ドル sale, 8ドル from a 10ドル sale, 16ドル from a 20ドル sale, and 24ドル from a 30ドル sale. You'd be surprised how many people buy 20ドル and 30ドル ebooks, and 89ドル or 129ドル courses!
There are two ways to write your book in your web browser on Leanpub: in plain text, or using our visual editor. If you know what Markdown is, choose plain text. If you don't, but you're reasonably technical, choose plain text. Markdown is really simple to learn. You can learn everything you need in 5 minutes. If you're not reasonably technical, then consider choosing our visual editor. It's in beta at the moment, but it's getting better all the time.
If you have a favorite text editor, write on your computer. If you don't, write in your web browser. Our in-browser writing experience used to be terrible, but our in-browser plain text editor is actually really good now. Our in-browser visual editor is in early beta, but it's getting better all the time.
If you know what Git is, use GitHub. If you don't, use Dropbox. Git and GitHub are amazing if you're a programmer. If you're not, well, have we mentioned Dropbox or our amazing in-browser plain text editor? :)
If you write your book in plain text, you can format it in Markua. Markua is basically Markdown, minus inline HTML, plus some optional extensions for adding things like index entries and other things which some books need and which Markdown doesn't natively support. Markua has an open specification based on the CommonMark spec for Markdown.
No. You can write your book in standard Markdown as originally defined by John Gruber, and things will work great, with one exception: don't use inline HTML, as it's not supported in Markua.
You just upload your ebook, and click the publish button. You can upload PDF and EPUB files. We do not modify your files in any way.
We don't include an annual 349ドル service credit with the Lifetime Max Author Membership we would have to price it really, really high to account for the fact that some authors would use that 349ドル credit every year for decades. So, instead we offer a one-time 3,499ドル service credit which you can use for any Leanpub author services, including our amazing GlobalAuthor bundles. If you were planning to buy a GlobalAuthor bundle when your book is done, the Lifetime Max Author Membership is a no-brainer deal for you, since the service credit is equal to the price of the membership and to the price of GlobalAuthor Pro.
We'll put you back on your Lifetime Standard Membership or Lifetime Pro Membership. It's lifetime, after all.
No, Leanpub does not and has never used DRM. Not only do we not add DRM to any ebooks we've generated, we also do not support DRM on uploaded ebooks. We believe that authors should worry more about obscurity than piracy.
No. They irritate legitimate readers. We believe that authors should worry more about obscurity than piracy.
Seriously, our Help Center is amazing. We put way more thought and effort into it than you would typically expect. Check it out, and if you can't find the answer, email us!