Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Transform Your Non-Fiction Book With CourseAI

Years ago, we added the ability to write and publish online courses to the Leanpub platform.

These online courses combine lessons people can read with quizzes and exercises they can take, and receive an automatically-graded certificate upon completion.

Creating Your Own Online Course

You can create your own course for free any time here.

…and you can find complete tutorials for the course writing modes here.

Using CourseAI to Turn Your Non-Fiction Book Into a Course

Eventually, we realized that many Leanpub books would make great courses.

This would essentially mean taking each chapter from the book manuscript, putting it in the course manuscript, and then creating quizzes and exercises for each chapter.

You can do this manually yourself of course, but we developed our own service to turn a Leanpub book into an online course.

We call this service CourseAI.

Why Should I Use CourseAI to Create an Online Course from my Book?

Online courses offer buyers a number of features that may make them more attractive than a book:

• They have quizzes and exercises that confirm you’ve actually learned the material
• Their employer may be more comfortable with them buying courses than books with the company credit card
• They are more likely to be able to use a course to fulfill their annual professional development hours obligations

Those three reasons are why you can charge more for courses than for books, which is one big reason you try CourseAI.

To learn more about CourseAI, click here.