Yves Hanoulle

Who are you?

As a creative collaboration agent, I’m helping people to work better together. My current challenge is finding great teams I can join for one week and learn about them, by helping them become even better.

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

Our books are community books. We publish as fast as possible and then keep adding content. We have learned that publishing the lean way, is making the books so much better. And when we do it, we find more people that want to help out.

What do you think about Leanpub?

For years I have been asking agile leaders why they did not write their books in an agile way. They have always said it’s not possible. Now I understand their answer was: we don’t have the right tools. With Leanpub we have such a tool. My answer to : is it possible to write a book in an agile way? It’s not only possible, it’s also desirable.

Why do you use Leanpub?

Because of the people behind leanpub. They understand what it means to focus on the highest priorities. I’ll send them a lot of idea’s and they pick up the ones which bring most value to their community. And when someone has a great idea, they’ll implement it directly. All while thinking about long and short term. Not many companies can do this. Leanpub excells at it.

How did you discover Leanpub?

I bought Laurent Bossavit’s book. And I understood that this was the service I was waiting for.

What’s your favorite Leanpub feature?

Republishing a book, and all our readers get an update.

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?

Writing any book can happen in a lean way. It’s reading a lean book that is hard.

So any book with a community, can be written that way. Yet most book won’t reach a big audience this way. The audience comes after that.

For technical books, I can see that audience being bigger while writing it.

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

I don’t remember, I think it was one month old or so. Would I publish earlier? yes, that is what I have been doing and asking everyone who helps out for the local country version of who is agile.

How can we improve Leanpub?

Find a way how readers can see the version differences between books. Find a way to make it easier for readers to interact with authors.