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Every year more than 2 million new books get published

worldwide.

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Source: Wikipedia 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per_year

However the average book gets sold/read no more than 250 times.

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Source: Huffington Post 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bj-gallagher/book-publishing_b_1394159.html

This results in:

-> Unhappy authors-> Wasted resources-> Lost knowledge

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Source: Lean Book Publishinghttp://www.leanbookpublishing.com

To solve this problem:

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-> It is time for the creation of a new way of book publishing…

…which focusses on publishing books that readers want.

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Our solution is Lean Book Publishing

A new way of book publishing that focusses on:

Publishing books that readers want/like/buy/read

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Thereby we aim for:

-> Making both authors and readers more happy

-> And improving the efficiency, quality and satisfaction of the book

publishing industry in general

That is the core of Lean Book Publishing:

-> Publishing what readers like

-> Thereby improving reader and author satisfaction

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What Lean Book Publishing wants to achieve:

1) Raising the total market share of book sales by 10%* till 2020

-> as a result of amazing books

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* Total U.S. book market $27.12 billion in 2012, Source: BookStats via Paid Content – Laura Hazard Owen:

http://paidcontent.org/2013/05/15/ebooks-made-up-20-of-the-u-s-consumer-book-industry-in-2012-up-from-15-in-2011/

What Lean Book Publishing wants to achieve:

2) Raising average book reader satisfaction by 25%* till 2020

-> as a result of amazing books

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* A survey estimating current reader satisfaction rates is currently in the worksSource: www.leanbookpublishing.com

What Lean Book Publishing wants to achieve:

3) Educating self published authors

so that the differences in sales*decrease by 25%** till 2020

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*Differences in sales numbers between self-published and traditionally published authors** UK Sales market share of self-published books only 2% in 2012, Source: Bowker Market Research

via The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/11/self-published-ebooks-20-per-cent-genre

lean book publishing

is a new way of book publishing that turns the

traditional book publishing process upside down.

about

Instead of shipping final books…

lean book publishing starts the market validation

already with the first idea.

As a result, lean book publishing:

drastically reduces failure rates and

increases author and reader satisfaction

The core characteristcs of lbp are:

- getting feedback constantly

- reducing waste repeatedly

- measuring success systematically

- improving always

The main results lbp is delivering:

- happier readers

- happier authors

- happier publishers

- happier planet

Lean Book Publishing focusses on publishing

books that readers want

The core

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Lean book publishing is largely basedon the lean startup methodology

founded by eric ries. Learn more about the lean startup here.

Read also the lean publishing manifesto by peter armstrong who defined the term lean

publishing. His startup leanpub is based on the lean publishing idea.

Another great thinker in that field is mat munro. Read his article on lean publishing on medium.

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