Peter Armstrong: The Lean Publishing Manifesto

Peter Armstrong: The Lean Publishing Manifesto

Creator: Peter Armstrong is the Co-founder of Leanpub and Ruboss. He is also the author of several books including Lean Publishing.

Purpose: Books and writing are changing. And given most books are written in isolation or in stealth it is easy to write a book that nobody wants to buy/read. The Lean Publishing Manifesto suggests a way around this.

Manifesto (highlights)

Lean Publishing is the act of self-publishing a book while you are writing it, evolving the book with feedback from your readers and finishing a first draft before using the traditional publishing workflow, with or without a publisher.

In short: Lean Publishing is the act of self-publishing an in-progress book.

 

The Lean Publishing How-To Guide for Non-Fiction

Step 1: Blog and Tweet to Find Your Voice and Build An Audience

Step 2: Write the Minimum Viable Book

What’s a Minimum Viable Book? It’s the smallest in-progress subset of your book that you could sell and be able to claim with a straight face that it is worth the money right now.

Step 3: Start Marketing and Selling the In-Progress Minimum Viable Book

Step 4: Finish the First Draft with Constant Feedback from your Readers

Step 5: Polish, Market and Sell the Completed Book, Possibly with a Traditional Publisher

 

Source

Complete Article and Manifesto