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What do you do to make an ebook when an author uploads a PDF?

I see you have an "Upload" workflow which supports PDF and EPUB upload, but I don't understand how that makes a book.

Written by Leanpub Support

When you upload a PDF, we do not do any processing on it.  We simply sell your PDF.

The same is true with EPUB uploads via our "Upload" writing mode. Our Upload workflow is exactly that: you make the book, we sell it.
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When you use our book generation workflow, then we output an ebook in PDF and EPUB (and HTML for reading online), like the many you see in our store here:
​https://leanpub.com/bookstore
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If you want a representative example of what one of these books looks like, you can download R Programming for Data Science for free from
​https://leanpub.com/rprogramming

(You can also buy it for money, of course -- it's a great book!)


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