Upload your manuscript. Our AI converts it into a structured online course — lessons, slides, quizzes, and discussions. You host it with us and sell it to your own students. Keep 100% of your royalties (minus payment fees).
No tech skills required. Your first course is ready in under an hour.
CourseBud is a home for independent authors who've turned their own books into full online courses — with narrated lessons, quizzes, and author-led discussion. Every course here is taught by the person who wrote the book.
Send us a PDF, EPUB, or Word doc. Any length, any topic — fiction, nonfiction, business, self-help, textbooks. You keep all rights.
We break your book into lessons, generate slide decks, write quiz questions, and set up discussion prompts — all from your own material. You review and tweak before it goes live.
Your course lives at coursebud.io/you/your-course
(or your own subdomain on Pro). Students pay you directly via Stripe.
We handle hosting, progress tracking, and certificates.
$199 one-time setup fee per course covers the AI conversion, slide generation, quiz authoring, and author onboarding. Then pick the plan that fits your student base.
30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime. Your students keep access for the rest of the billing period if you cancel.
Join authors who are already earning from their existing work as a course.
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