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I want to embed a video on my book's Leanpub landing page. How can I do this?
I want to embed a video on my book's Leanpub landing page. How can I do this?

Keywords: I've got a YouTube or Vimeo video introducing my book. What can I do with it on Leanpub?

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Written by Leanpub Support
Updated over a week ago

Adding a video to your book's landing page on Leanpub is a great way to get more readers!

You can do this here:

https://leanpub.com/YOUR_BOOK/settings/web_page_media

...making sure to replace YOUR_BOOK with your book's unique "slug".

You can also find this page if you go to the Overview page for your book and select "Video" under "Settings":

On that page, you will see an option to enter the URL for your video:

Be sure to enter only the part of the video's URL that comes after the /. For example, you should do this:

...but you should not do this:

You'll then see the video embedded on your book's landing page, like in this example:

Please note you can apply for us to add your video to our Launch playlist on YouTube, or apply to film a completely new video! Click here for more details, and click here to go to the application form.

OK, that's it!


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