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I've written a book in LaTeX and produced a PDF for sale on Leanpub. Should I also make an EPUB version of my book?

Keywords: book, LaTeX, EPUB, PDF

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Written by Leanpub Support
Updated over a year ago

Going from LaTeX to EPUB is a hard problem, and we believe it's not worth solving: if you're writing the type of book for which LaTeXis is the best choice, then your readers are certainly capable of reading a PDF, and they will probably prefer to do so, anyway, since they'll almost certainly be using a computer to read it.

For the most popular technical books on Leanpub, readers download the PDF over 90% of the time, and download the EPUB version less than 50% of the time.


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