Julien Bayle

Who are you?

I’m Julien Bayle. I’m a french minimalist digital artist working at the crossroads of sounds & visuals & data.

My work explores the relationship between data & art through music pieces, live performances & A/V installations. If my technology under the hood is often described as “complex and intriguing”, this is the result of a long process in which each step became a refinement in which the superfluous is each time removed. I’m teaching the approaches of digital arts course at Marseille’s Arts School, as a guest artist and professor, and leading some workshops there about how we can use data to create visuals, sounds and more. In 2013, I published 2 books, including one in both languages french & english: C Programming for Arduino & Max for Live Ultimate Zen Guide. I’m also known in electronic music scenes as protofuse. I’m the founder of the minimalist & idm label named bitsquare records.

Can you describe your Leanpub books? Are they in-progress or complete? What types of books are they?

I published one book in one shot and I have another one unpublished and about 40% finished.

These are technical books about technologies related to artistic creation and live performance.

What do you think about Leanpub?

Leanpub is the best solution for self-publishing because it provides a very easy and straight way from the production to the market. I really love the google groups for support. It works very fine, fast and efficiently.

Why do you use Leanpub?

At first, I was looking for a self-publishing platform. Then, I saw the markdown power and I just jumped into it. The high royalties rate is also a game changer. Indeed, as an author, I can imagine to write more book and to be paid for my work, that seems impossible with ANY publishers. I won’t go back!

How did you discover Leanpub?

Dan Roden gave me your name on fb while I was discussing about my problem with my publisher that wasn’t promoting my first book as it had to.

What’s your favorite Leanpub feature?

Markdown + publication process. So easy, so fast, so efficient!

How have you reached out to potential and existing readers of your books?

I had my fanbase, and I promoted on social networks only.

What are your thoughts on the Lean Publishing approach? What types of books, and what types of authors, do you think it is good for?

I think it is good for technical books, but not only. Novel and fiction book can be spreaded progressively, like a series.

How long was your first Leanpub book when you first clicked the publish button? Would you publish earlier or later next time?

It was finished and 100 pages.

How can we improve Leanpub?

without giving toooooo much options, I’d be happy to be able to format/design the landing page. Only that. No more. Even amongst a couple of templates.