5 Reasons to Self-Publish Your Genre Fiction Novels on Leanpub

Amazon KDP has a lot more eyeballs than Leanpub, we know!

But it also lacks a lot the features and flexibility you can get on Leanpub - and the opportunity to potentially make more money per sale!

Here are 5 reasons you should self-publish your genre fiction ebooks on Leanpub:

Better Pricing Flexibility: You can sell books for free, or $0.99 or more, with no constraint imposed by us on how you price your book elsewhere

Leanpub offers great pricing flexibility for self-published authors of genre fiction novels or short stories.

You can sell "lead generation" books for free, to introduce yourself to new readers.

You can then sell other books for a price of $0.99 or more.

You can change your prices any time.

On, and on Leanpub you can take advantage of "variable pricing," where you set two prices for your book: the "Minimum Price" and the "Suggested Price".

This model lets people choose what they want to pay - including choosing to pay something for a book with a free minimum price.

And the best thing is, we don't care how you price your book elsewhere: you can price your book on Leanpub however you like, without worrying about us coming after you for selling it cheaper on your own website or another platform.

Selling Your Books in Bundles: Create a bundle of books where you effectively sell each book at a discount to its standalone price

Leanpub makes it easy to publish bundles of ebooks.

You can price the bundle so people are getting a discount on each book, e.g. you can sell a bundle of 10 books for $7.99, where each book is for sale on Leanpub individually for $0.99.

Bundles are a great way to appeal to people who've fallen in love with your writing and can't get enough, but want to buy your books at a more affordable price point!

Create Discount Coupons for Flash Sales You Control: Discount coupon links with maximum use and time constraints are a great way to boost your sales

Leanpub has a pretty unique feature, where you can create discount coupon links for your books or book bundles.

This lets you set limits you can use to promote your sale; deals with limits are a popular way to increase sales.

For example, you could mount a social media campaign with a coupon that lets people get 50% off for the next 24 hours.

Or, you could create a campaign where you say the first 25 people to use the link can get the discount.

The best thing is, these kinds of sales techniques are totally under your control - and free.

Easy Publishing and Updating: Our self-publishing platform is optimized for easily uploading, publishing, and updating books

Legacy self-publishing platforms, or platforms that have to interoperate with lots of other disribution platforms, can come with lots of requirements, that they offload onto you.

Leanpub's not like that: upload your ebook file and a cover, add some information about the book and yourself, choose your price, and you're ready to publish.

If you want to publish your book serially, by adding a new chapter to it, or even if you just want to correct a typo a fan pointed out to you, it couldn't really be easier than it is on Leanpub: you just upload the new file, and it's instantly available to anyone who bought it in the past, and to anyone who buys it going forward.

Easy Accounting and Reporting: No multiple payments based on purchase location and currency

Leanpub makes royalty payments on a monthly basis.

When you get your royalty payment, you get one payment, not many payments that you have to keep track of.

If you choose Wise as your payment method, you can also choose what currency you want to receive your payment in - and potentially save tons of money on currency conversion.