essentially act as a publisher then. This way, you don’t need to get a VAT number, if that’s difficult for you. But you’ll need to share the Amazon royalties with Leanpub. When publishing a book through Amazon’s KDP service, you also get access to a basic book cover edit...
Though self-publishing seems to be the way of the future, it’s really nothing new. You might be surprised to learn that many of the titans of literary history were self-published at some point in their careers, including the likes of William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, ...