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Kick Off Your Technical or Business Book Project in 3 Hours

Live 3-hour workshop on Zoom. You'll leave with a real book project, progress on your first chapter, and a clear plan to keep going.

Next Book Workshop

Saturday, May 2, 2026

5:00 PM8:00 PM Pacific Time

(5:00 PM8:00 PM UTC)

Starts in 16 days, 23 hours and 41 minutes

Kick Off Your Technical or Business Book Project in 3 Hours

What You'll Do (Not Just Learn — Do)

A 3-hour live workshop on Zoom taught by Leanpub cofounders Peter Armstrong and Len Epp. Set up a real book project, start writing your first chapter, and preview it as a professional PDF and EPUB. Real interaction, not a passive webinar.

You'll write in plain text using Markdown, a simple format used not only by writers and developers everywhere, but also understood by AI like ChatGPT and Claude. No special software needed. Leanpub turns your Markdown files into a professionally formatted book that you can sell or share immediately. You'll publish in-progress, get feedback from early readers, and iterate as you go.

No prior writing or publishing experience required. Just bring your idea.

What You Get

3-Hour Book Workshop (live on Zoom)$79
1-Year Light Author Membership$129
$79 Credit toward Full Day Workshop or Bootcamp$79
Total Value$287
$79.00

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What is Leanpub?

Leanpub is a self-publishing platform used by thousands of nonfiction authors. You write in Markdown, and Leanpub generates a professional PDF, EPUB, and web version of your book. You keep 80% of every sale of $7.99 and up, and 80% minus 50 cents for sales below $7.99. Over $15 million USD in royalties have been paid to Leanpub authors.

Your Book Workshop ticket includes a 1-Year Light Author Membership ($129 value) and a $79 credit toward Full Day Workshop or Book Bootcamp.

Leanpub authors love Leanpub.

We're authors too, and we built Leanpub to be the platform we would love to use. It turns out, we weren't alone...

  • As an academic, I like Leanpub because it lets me write and get my ideas out there quickly. Leanpub is simply the best place for publishing my books.

    Roger D. Peng
    Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Leanpub's book-creation tools allowed me to focus on creating the types of books I wanted to write instead of worrying how to create my own book publishing toolchain. I have never regretted using Leanpub to publish my ebooks.

    Chris Hartjes
    The Grumpy Programmer
  • Leanpub takes the pain out of publishing. They provide the tools, you provide the books and then magic happens.

    Ryan Bigg
    Author, Multitenancy with Rails
  • I love using Leanpub because I can write my book using simple Markdown notation. Leanpub let's me focus on my content and they handle the rest.

    Taylor Otwell
    Creator Of Laravel
  • Leanpub is a game changer for independent authors, removing the hassles associated with formatting, book production, and electronic sales, freeing up the time to do what we do best: write.

    W. Jason Gilmore
    Author, Easy Laravel 5
  • Leanpub helped me achieve my goal of publishing a book. Its simple, easy to use interface got my book up and making money within weeks, I love Leanpub!

    Samantha Laing
    Growing Agile
  • Leanpub helped me gauge interest in my book, get payments early on when it was only a few chapters, and has got me a bunch of sales just from people browsing around the site.

    Phil Sturgeon
    Author, Build APIs You Won't Hate
  • Leanpub helps me see my books as I write them. Even better, I can find readers early, to read my books and offer suggestions. I can pivot, if I see the need.

    Johanna Rothman
    Author of 8 Leanpub books and counting…
  • Leanpub made it simple for me to run with my book idea and build my reputation in the Ruby community. I went from first draft to first sale in days, not months or years.

    Aaron Sumner
    Author, Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec
  • Four years ago, I joined Leanpub to just give it a try. Today, over 28,000 book sales later, I cannot help but say that I'm the biggest Leanpub fan on this planet!

    Manuel Kiessling
    Author, The Node Beginner Book
  • Leanpub makes publishing your own book super easy. The fact that you can release updates continually helps with the mindset of getting a minimum version out ASAP and then iterating to improve.

    Karen Greaves
    Growing Agile
  • I earn more royalties from my books on Leanpub than I do with well established publishers or through Amazon (which I publish on thanks to Leanpub's mobi conversion).

    Paul Bradshaw
    Paul runs the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University
  • Leanpub allows me focus on content, takes care everything else and offers an amazing author royalty. It’s a fantastic platform for writing and publishing books.

    Simon Brown
    Author, Software Architecture for Developers
  • I love that Leanpub makes writing and publishing a beautiful book so simple. I no longer spin my wheels with layouts and formats - Leanpub gets out of the way when it's time to write, and then automates everything when it's time to publish.

    Daniel Root
    Author, Trello Dojo
  • With Leanpub, the first person who purchased my book for $9.99 almost two years ago (and only received a preface, and two short intro chapters) has had access to almost every bit of knowledge I've gained in those two years, and *that's* the value.

    Jeff Geerling
    Author, Ansible for DevOps
  • Simple and lean, forces me to focus on writing and marketing, and pays excellent royalties.

    Reg "Raganwald" Braithwaite
    Author, JavaScript Allongé, the "Six" Edition
  • Leanpub forces you to focus on writing and gives you immediate feedback. Allowing Leanpub to take care of the curation and delivery helped me focus on shipping my book.

    Paul Redmond
    Author of Writing APIs With Lumen
  • While most eBook exporter apps today can generate PDF files and many support ePub, there's one tool we recommend above all after trying 8 of the most popular: Leanpub.

    Matthew Guay
    Content Marketer at Zapier

The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.

Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.

You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!

So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?

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Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase

We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.

(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)

In fact, authors have earned over $14 million writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub.

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Write and Publish on Leanpub

You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!

Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.

Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub