You can use your unpaid royalties to get services on Leanpub, like advertising and promotions, and cool Leanpub AI Services like TranslateAI!

Our goal here is to help authors develop their books into self-funding book projects, where they basically fund their growth on their own.

In this article we'll show you how to use unpaid royalties to get a variety of Leanpub services. For some more details about how it works, please see this article.

Here are the three sections of this article:

All right, here we go!

To advertise your book, go to the "Promote Your Book" page for your book here:

...making sure to replace YOUR_BOOK with your book's unique web address.

You can also find the "Promote Your Book" page on your book's "Overview" page:

Here's what that page will look like when you first publish your book:

After you've earned some royalties, you'll see that reflected in the section at the top of the page:

Now, when you have some "unpaid royalties available" like in the above screenshot, if you click the button to get a Shelf spot:

... you will see that the amount has been deducted from your "unpaid royalties available":

To get Leanpub Author Services for your book, go to the "Author Services" page for your book here:

...making sure to replace YOUR_BOOK with your book's unique web address.

You can also find the "Author Services" page on your book's "Overview" page:

Here's what that page will look like when you first publish your book:

(Actually, in some cases you'll see something a bit different and hopefully self-explanatory, but we didn't want to make this article too complicated!)

After you've earned some royalties, you'll see that reflected in the section at the top of the page:

Now, when you have some "unpaid royalties available" like in the above screenshot, if you select a language and click the button to get the Translate AI service:

... you will see that the amount has been deducted from your "unpaid royalties available":

To get an advertisement or a Leanpub AI Service you need to have enough unpaid royalties to use, of course!

To learn how to let your Leanpub royalties accumulate, please see this article:

Is it possible to keep royalty revenue from my book or course sales in the Leanpub platform for a while? How can I save up my unpaid royalties to get Leanpub AI Services or advertising spots?

OK, that's it!

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