Yes. Every Leanpub product has a "Primary Author" who is essentially in control of the product on Leanpub.

We would recommend you read our Terms of Service, particularly section 15, "Primary Authors and Co-Authors". Here is a link to our Terms of Service: https://leanpub.com/terms.

A Primary Author can transfer their Primary Author status to another person who has a Leanpub account.

In order to change the Primary Author to someone else, you will first need to add them as a co-author on each of the books.

Once they accept their co-author invitations, you can actually make them the Primary Author yourself, on the same page where you sent the co-author invitation. (You'll see the "Make Primary" option to do this after they've been added.)

Here are the instructions for adding a co-author to a book:

Hopefully none of the screenshots there are too outdated!


If you have any feedback or questions about this article, please email the Leanpub team about it at hello@leanpub.com!

If you have any questions or thoughts on writing and self-publishing with Leanpub, please join our global community of authors in our Authors Forum here!

Interested in creating your first Leanpub book? Here are some quick tutorials for our most popular writing modes: http://help.leanpub.com/en/articles/3088382-quick-walkthroughs-for-getting-started-on-a-leanpub-book

Are you looking for great deals on Leanpub ebooks, ebook bundles, and courses? Sign up for our Weekly and Monthly newsletter sales here!

Did this answer your question?