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Here's A Twist on Mining the Public Domain
Perhaps you’ve heard of public domain publishing as a means of making money online. I want to tell you about a twist on it that can have you bringing in extra revenue almost right away.
First, though, let's review the fundamentals. As you perhaps know, many books and other materials have entered the public domain (fallen out of copyright protection) and may be republished, in any format, by any person who wishes to do so. In the United States most works published through 1923 are now considered to be public domain ("PD").
If you find a PD book you believe people would buy if it were republished, you could reprint it as a physical book and sell copies via eBay, Amazon or your own web site. Some enterprising individuals have done this with old correspondence courses and other non-fiction, how-to type materials from years ago.
On the other hand, you could repackage your PD discovery as an ebook and make it available for people to download, for a price. This is probably the more usual way that people are bringing in money now from the public domain.Again, how-to, self-improvement and other non-fiction works will usually prove to be the most profitable.
Now about that little twist I mentioned. It involves making PD books freely available on the web, but with advertising on their pages. So, strictly speaking you are not selling books, but ad space.
A few years a guy named Steve Smith learned about a weird book from 1892 that combined a time-travel tale with a story about golf. Its title was Golf In the Year 2000.
Afer a bit of looking, he was able to find a copy of the book for just $10. He scanned the pages, converted them with OCR software, and posted the entire book on a web site he had registered specifically for this purpose.
Then he took it the next step. On his web pages, he surrounded the text of the book with Google AdSense and affiliate merchant ads. This allowed him to make money from visitors clicking the AdSense or purchasing things. By the way, if you're curious you can view his site at www.golf-in-the-year-2000.com.
Steve’s online edition of Golf In the Year 2000 attracts a steady stream of golf enthusiasts, science fiction fans, Victorian literature lovers and the simply curious, he reports. And the ads on his pages bring him money!
This is certainly an idea that could be copied by others. Public-domain sources are abundant nowadays. You might be able to find a suitable book in one of the many web-based PD archives, preferably something that not many other people have discovered yet.
One good thing about this idea is that the book you showcase (and use to earn ad revenue) need not be restricted to non-fiction or how-to. As with Steve's weird little golf/science fiction find, it can just be something that will attract visitors to your web site, for the sheer novelty if nothing else.
You could also look in used-book stores to try to find something rare enough not to have made it to the web at all. In that case you will probably need to buy a scanner and some OCR software to get the text into your computer.
Public domain publishing is indeed a potentially lucrative area.Further, how you "repurpose" your public domain finds is completely up to you. That's what makes it so much fun, as well as profitable.
This method of publishing public domain material is also described in this article, along with recommendations for further reading.
If you are interested in selling actual used books online, as on Amazon or eBay, there's a downloadable report available that shows a new and mega-profitable way to do it. Check it out here or read a solid review of it at Can You Still Make Money Selling Used Books on Amazon?
which position do you think man united should fill for the coming season?
if man united really wants to buy only one player, i think they should enforce the midfield, a left winger for example. what do you think?
huntelaar's not comin, am i right?
left wing definetly...huntelaar wants to come...but i think someone to back up giggs....cuz he won't be playing all the games...
if we can get a left mid park can also go to play his attacking midfield role...
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