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Write in Markdown or in Word and generate your ebook on Leanpub with one click, or upload your own PDF or EPUB files.

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A Reader Membership is a great deal, giving you free access to every book, bundle, course and track which has a free minimum price on Leanpub. Not all Leanpub books, bundles, courses and tracks have free minimum prices, but there are currently about 2000 books and courses with free minimum prices on Leanpub, and these are all included with your membership! Learn more here.

We have some books which are free for everyone, and many more which are only free with membership. You get free access to all these books and courses with a Reader Membership. Many of these books and courses are about computer programming or data science, so even if you only find a handful that you're interested in, you're getting an amazing value!

Besides being a great deal, Reader Memberships support Leanpub authors! Specifically, 50% of the money from Reader Memberships is paid as royalties to Leanpub authors.

A Reader Membership can be purchased for $4.99/month or $19/year. (If you add a free with membership book or course to your cart, we'll add a One Year Reader Membership to your cart as well. The One Year Reader Membership does not auto-renew.)

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Phillip Compeau

Phillip Compeau, Author of Biological Modeling: A Short Tour

Phillip Compeau - Phillip is the author of the Leanpub book Biological Modeling: A Short Tour. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Phillip about his background, how he got interested in math and biology, Computer Science and Computational Biology, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

Phillip Compeau - Phillip is the author of the Leanpub book Biological Modeling: A Short Tour. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Phillip about his background, how he got interested in math and biology, Computer Science and Computational Biology, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

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You can use Leanpub to write, publish and sell an ebook or online course.

We pay 80% royalties. That's not a typo: you earn $16 on a $20 sale. If we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.

Authors have earned$11,815,072writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub.

You can either write your book in Markdown or you can upload PDF, EPUB and MOBI files to sell in our store.

If you are writing in Markdown, you can use our simple in-browser text editor, or you can write on your computer and sync with GitHub or Dropbox. Either way, you can publish your Leanpub ebook with one click. You can publish your book while you're writing it, or wait until it is done: it's up to you.

You can create a Leanpub course in Markdown as well. Leanpub courses are like Leanpub books (and a great way to create them is to use your Leanpub book as a starting point or companion to the course), but learners read them and do the quizzes and exercises on the Leanpub website. To learn more about how to create a Leanpub course, you can watch this video on YouTube which shows the entire process from signup to publish!

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Authors have earned$11,815,072writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub, earning 80% royalties while saving up to 25 million pounds of CO2 and up to 46,000 trees.

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If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).

Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.

Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.

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Write and Publish on Leanpub

You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!

Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.

Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.

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