Vsevolod Dyomkin

Who are you?

Lisp programmer, also a part-time lecturer

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

1 complete book - a collection of interviews with programmers called “Lisp Hackers”. The interviews were first published at my blog http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com and then bundled in a ebook and made available on leanpub for free

What do you think about Leanpub?

The two things I appreciate about leanpub are: - it’s noticable that they strive to make the service easy to use - a personal approach: the team went out of they way to transfer my roalties which was not easy, because I’m in Ukraine were paypal doesn’t support incoming payments

Why do you use Leanpub?

There’s no reason not to use it - it’s a great distribution channel for your ideas and you can even get some money out of that :)

How did you discover Leanpub?

Through other books published via it.

What’s your favorite Leanpub feature?

Well, I guess, markdown->ebook publishing is essential.

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

Through my blog http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com

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 suits any kinds of books centered around pure text content in which illustration, design and typography don’t play any significant role.

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

I’ve used leanpub after I had 99% of the book material ready, so it was just a matter of doing the technical work to publish which went rather smooth.

How can we improve Leanpub?

First of all, there’re ways to improve the core publishing experience: support a richer variant of markdown, provide better error reporting. Also, even more streamlining of the user experience is possible (but not at the sake of removing features).