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The best way to give away Leanpub books to attendees at your conference is to contact the book's author and arrange the sale with them directly.
To contact a Leanpub author and arrange a conference purchase of their book, go to the book's landing page on Leanpub and scroll down a bit. At the end of the "About the Book" section, you'll find a button that says "Email the Author(s)". You can use this feature to contact the book's author. Please be sure to include your email address in the form!
Typically, a sale is arranged like this:
- You email the author asking for a specific number of copies of their ebook to distribute to your conference attendees
- You ask the author how much they would like to charge you for the purchase.
- Once a price is agreed, you make a purchase of the book for the agreed price. (You can type any price you like, up to $500, in the "YOU PAY" box you'll see when you go to the book's landing page. If your purchase is for more than $500, you can just make multiple purchases.)
- After the purchase is complete, you can then make a custom receipt for the purchase, including your company information, and send yourself a new receipt via email. Here are the instructions: http://help.leanpub.com/reader-help/i-need-to-add-company-information-to-my-receipt-how-do-i-do-that
- After the purchase is complete, notify the author, and they will create a special coupon link for your conference. You can then give this link to your attendees, which they can use to make a free purchase of the book
(To be clear: there's no requirement that any particular Leanpub author follow this process or offer conference discounts or coupons. However, most will absolutely be happy to do so, if you contact them!)
Here is a handy template you can copy and paste for when you email the author with your proposal:
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My name is [YOUR NAME]. I would like to distribute copies of your ebook [BOOK TITLE] to attendees at the [CONFERENCE NAME] conference.
In particular, I would like to distribute [NUMBER OF COPIES] copies of your ebook to our attendees. Can you please let me know how much you would charge for this purchase?
Here are some details about the conference:
[CONFERENCE NAME]
[DATES]
[LOCATION]
[LINK TO CONFERENCE WEBSITE]
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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If you have any questions, please feel free to email the team at hello@leanpub.com.