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Leanpub Publisher Memberships

Transform Your Publishing Workflow

Work with your editors and authors to create books the Lean Publishing way.

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Publisher Standard

$99/ month

  • Up to 3 editors
  • Create up to 100 books and 100 courses
  • Earn 80% royalties on all purchases
  • Full feature set: custom themes, InDesign export, analytics, API access, GitHub/Dropbox sync, print-ready PDF
  • Email support

Publisher Pro

$199/ month

  • Up to 5 editors
  • Create up to 150 books and 150 courses
  • Earn 80% royalties on all purchases
  • Full feature set: custom themes, InDesign export, analytics, API access, GitHub/Dropbox sync, print-ready PDF
  • Email support

Publisher Max

$349/ month

  • Up to 10 editors
  • Create up to 250 books and 250 courses
  • Earn 80% royalties on all purchases
  • Full feature set: custom themes, InDesign export, analytics, API access, GitHub/Dropbox sync, print-ready PDF
  • Email support

Need more editors, books or courses? Schedule a call.

Leanpub for Publishers

Leanpub is used by publishers, non-profits, universities, and companies to write, produce, and sell books, courses, bundles, and tracks.

Johns Hopkins University has used Leanpub to produce a number of data science courses. Growing Agile has used Leanpub to easily produce over a dozen professional ebooks using Leanpub's simple, proven workflow.

Why Leanpub?

  • Multiple writing modes: visual editor, plain text editor, GitHub sync, Dropbox sync, or upload your own PDF/EPUB
  • Generate PDF and EPUB with the click of a button
  • Sell on our storefront and earn 80% royalties, including on in-progress books
  • GitHub integration for collaboration and change tracking across your team
  • Create books and courses from a single plain text document, with instant updates to readers
  • Custom themes, InDesign export, Google Analytics, and API access on every tier

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