Leanpub for business authors
Your business book, in readers' hands this quarter.
People come to Leanpub to buy business books as well as technical ones. Publish yours a chapter at a time, find out what lands with the people you wrote it for, and earn 80% royalties on what you sell.
Why Leanpub
A book that is working for you before it is finished.
A business book is an argument. The fastest way to sharpen one is to put it in front of the people it is for.
Business readers shop here
Leanpub is primarily a place where people come to buy technical books and business books. A book about leading, selling, building or managing has readers in this store.
Publish a chapter at a time
You do not have to disappear for a year. Publish what you have, send it to clients and colleagues, and let their questions shape the next chapter. Every reader gets each new version with a click.
Coupons and bundles for the people you work with
Give a workshop its own coupon, bundle your books together, or pair a book with a course. Our marketing features come with every author membership, the free one included.
A book you can hand to someone
Publishing produces a PDF, an EPUB and a web version from one manuscript. For a printed book, print-ready PDF export comes with a Light Author Membership or higher, and Publish on Amazon puts the book on Amazon for you.
Help when writing is not your day job
GhostAI works on the manuscript with you. If you would rather have the book written for you, our ghostwriting services do that, from the Founder Book up.
Teach it as a course
Leanpub sells courses as well as books. Turn the method in your book into a course with quizzes and exercises, sold in the same store.
Royalty rate
80%
on every sale of $7.99 and up, and 80% minus 50 cents on purchases below $7.99.
Royalties
You keep most of every sale.
Leanpub's self-published authors earn 80% royalties on every sale of $7.99 and up, and 80% minus 50 cents on purchases below $7.99.
A membership never changes what you earn on a sale: the royalty rate is the same on every author membership, the free one included.
You keep the copyright to your work. Leanpub does not claim ownership of what you write or sell here.
Where next
Start with what you already know.
A talk, a workshop, a newsletter or a podcast is most of a book already.
Start free
A Free Author Membership is where every Leanpub author starts, with our editors and the same royalty rate as every other membership.
Have a podcast, newsletter or conference?
PodcastBook, NewsletterBook and ConferenceBook turn what you have already made into a book.
Never quite finishing?
Books Die Alone is the talk about why most books stall around chapter three, and what a first version actually needs.
Want it in more languages, or in audio?
TranslateAI and AudiobookAI take a finished book further.
Publish early. Publish often.
The book you publish this quarter and improve all year beats the one you are still polishing next year.
Create a book