Selling self-published books is hard. Here are five ways Leanpub helps authors reach new readers

Here are five unique ways Leanpub helps self-published authors grow their audience, sell more books, and improve their author income.

We record and publish book launch videos with authors - for free

When you publish an ebook on Leanpub, you can apply for a Leanpub Launch video.

It takes just one ten minute meeting over Zoom.

We record the video of you talking about yourself and your book, and who it's for.

We'll produce the video and publish it on our channel on YouTube.

You can then add the video to your Leanpub landing page, and use the YouTube link to promote your book on social media, in your email newsletter, and anywhere else you want to share it.

You can use our TranslateAI service to translate your book into up to 31 new languages

With our TranslateAI service, you can translate your book into 31 new languages.

If you publish your book on Leanpub, you can actually get 31 new landing pages for your book, for free, with your book's title and "about" information translated into each language.

That's 31 new markets for your book, all around the world.

And of course you can take those translations elsewhere, like Amazon KDP, and increase your audience on your favorite publishing platform.

You can choose for your book to potentially be included in our Weekly and Monthly Newsletter Sales, and our automatic social media discount promotions

When you publish your book on Leanpub and you opt in to our discount sales, you book is eligble to be included in our Weekly and Monthly Newsletter Sales, that reach tens of thousands of potential new readers.

And yes, it's free, though no book is guaranteed to be in a sale, you're just added to the list.

To guarantee a spot, you can buy a sponsored book spot here.

We record and publish long-form podcast episodes with individual authors

Space is limited of course, but we record long-form, in-depth podcast interviews with authors on our Frontmatter podcast.

These interviews are a great addition or anchor for your online profile: Leanpub co-founder Len Epp does extensive research for each interview, giving you a chance to talk at length not only about your book, but your unique life story, and the perspective you bring to your writing.

If you've published a book on Leanpub, you can apply to appear on the Frontmatter podcast here.

You can sell multiple copies to conference organizers or corporate clients, optionally with bulk discounts

Most ebook stores are designed for selling one copy of a book at a time, to individual customers.

So is Leanpub, of course, but we also have a way for people to buy multiple copies at once, and distribute them to readers via email.

We also have a feature that lets you sell multiple-copy packages of your book, where the customer can buy multiple copies for their team or reading club, all in just one purchase.

Explore our platform to learn more

Leanpub actually has a lot more features than that, to help self-published authors sell more books!

You can try searching our online Help Center with hundreds of unique articles and how-to tutorials and comprehensive walkthroughs, just exploring our website, or even better, just diving in and creating a book right now - it's free to write and publish in our Browser writing mode.