lean book publishing

science,numbers& conclusions

www.leanbookpublishing.com

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

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

FACT IS:

-> Successful book publishing is hard

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-> And that it is time for a new way of book publishing

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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

Additional data characterizing the current book publishing landscape

with a focus on self-publishing

80% of all self published bookssell less than 100 copies in total

Source: Laura Howard refering to Amazon Inchttp://laurahoward78.blogspot.co.at/2012/09/five-secrets-to-successful-self.html

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More than 80% of all books are self published*

-> however they only make up 2% in

sales in most countries (U.K. in

2012)*** Source: Estimate: LBP 2013 www.leanbookpublishing.com | Source: Wikipedia 2009 (76% in

2009): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-publishing**Source: The Guardian:

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

Ebooks made up 20% of the U.S. consumer book industry in 2012

* 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/

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