5 Ways Leanpub Helps You Improve Your Book After You Publish It

There are a lot of great self-publishing platforms out there, but most of them assume your book will never be changed after you publish it.

Leanpub's different: we want to help authors improve their books, even after they have "hit the publish button".

Here are five ways Leanpub helps you improve your book after it's been published:

1. We make it easy to update your book.

After your book is published on Leanpub, you can edit it any time, and hit the publish button again. Your changes will instantly be available to everyone who's already bought your book, and anyone who buys it in the future.

2. Readers can use our platform to contact you about typos and other feedback.

On your book's web page, Leanpub provides readers with an option to send you an email, without revealing your email address to them. That way, you can get great feedback, and even reply to readers who share their email address with you.

3. Readers who get refunds can let you know why.

Refunds are pretty rare on Leanpub, but when someone does request one, we give them a form that lets them explain why they wanted the refund. This can really help you improve your book's content, and your messaging about it.

4. In our GitHub writing mode, you can use GitHub's amazing version control and collaboration features.

The easiest way to write a Leanpub book is in your browser, but we also have an option to write your book using a platform some the world's best programmers use to write some of the world's most sophisticated software: GitHub. Our GitHub writing mode lets you do all kinds of amazing collaborations with readers, co-authors and editors, including receiving pull requests for typos or more substantial changes and updates.

5. Leanpub makes it easy to experiment with pricing, so you can find the right price point for your readers.

It might sounds funny to list pricing in an article about improving your book, but getting pricing right is a very important feature of your book. With our "variable pricing" model, you set both a minimum price and a suggested price, and let readers choose what they want to pay.