Leanpub was our only Oak sponsor for WordCamp Vancouver, and we wanted to help promote their product and introduce everyone to what they are doing. The sponsorship money we collected help made things like lunch and the social possible, and without sponsors the tickets would have had to have been more than double the price to offset the costs. Here’s some information about Leanpub – you can check them out at leanpub.com.
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Imagine a world in which authors can actually make money writing books…
Imagine a world in which authors know who their readers are, and can have a meaningful conversation with them about their books—before they’re even “published”…
Imagine a world in which authors could apply Customer Development and Lean Startup principles to the process of writing and publishing a book…
If you imagine that world long enough, you realize that the authors who know their readers the best are bloggers, and that the future of publishing is turning blogs into books. Automatically.
That’s the future that Leanpub is working to create, using WordPress MU as the foundation for a new system of self-publishing. Currently PDF is supported, with iPad and Kindle support (for the geeks: EPUB and MOBI) coming soon.
Go to http://leanpub.com to create, curate, edit and publish a book based on your blog today. You can go from a blogger to an e-book author in under an hour…
