Lean Book Publishing is a new approach that focuses on publishing books readers want to buy and read. Each year over 2 million new books are published but the average book is read only 250 times, resulting in unhappy authors and wasted resources. Lean Book Publishing aims to increase book sales and reader satisfaction by publishing engaging content for readers, thereby improving the book industry for both authors and readers. Their goal is to raise total book sales by 10% and average reader satisfaction by 25% by 2020.

2. Every year more than 2 million new
books get published worldwide.
Source: Wikipedia 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per_year

3. However the average book gets
sold/read no more than 250 times.
Source: Huffington Post 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bj-gallagher/book-publishing_b_1394159.html

4. This results in:
-> Unhappy authors
-> Wasted resources
-> Lost knowledge
Source: Lean Book Publishing
http://www.leanbookpublishing.com

5. To solve this problem:
-> It is time for the creation of a
new way of book publishing…
…which focusses on publishing
books that readers want.

6. Our solution is
Lean Book Publishing
A new way of book publishing that focusses on:
Publishing books that readers
want/like/buy/read

7. 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

8. That is the core of Lean Book Publishing:
-> Publishing what readers like
-> Thereby improving reader
and author satisfaction

9. 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
* 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/

10. What Lean Book Publishing
wants to achieve:
2) Raising average book reader
satisfaction by 25%* till 2020
-> as a result of amazing books
* A survey estimating current reader satisfaction rates is currently in the works
Source: www.leanbookpublishing.com

11. What Lean Book Publishing
wants to achieve:
3) Educating self published authors
so that the differences in sales*
decrease by 25%** till 2020
*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

17. Lean Book Publishing
focusses on publishing
books that readers want