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Hoping to Bring In Money On the Web? The Public Domain Is Your Friend
Quite possibly, you’ve been told of public domain publishing as a method 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 may know, many books and other works have gone into the public domain (fallen out of copyright protection) and can be republished, in any form, by anyone who desires to do so. In the U.S. most works published through the year 1923 are considered now to be public domain ("PD").
If you discover a PD book you believe people would pay for 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 folks have done this with old correspondence courses and other non-fiction, how-to type materials from years past.
Or, you could package your PD discovery as an e-book and make it available for people to download, for a price. This is probably the more common way that people are earning 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 here's the twist I mentioned. The method I prefer is to make PD books freely available on the web, and place advertising on their pages. Strictly speaking, then, you are selling ad space, not the book itself.
A few years a guy named Steve Smith heard about an odd 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 searching, he was able to find a copy of the book for just $10. He scanned the pages, converted them with opitcal character reading software, and posted the entire book to a website he registered specifically for this purpose.
He went further than that, though. On his site's pages, he surrounded the text of the book with Google AdSense and affiliate merchant ads. This enabled him to make money from visitors clicking the AdSense or buying 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 devotees, science fiction fans, Victorian literature lovers and the simply curious, he reports. And the ads on his pages bring him money!
This is an idea that could easily be duplicated. Public-domain sources are abundant nowadays. You might be able to find an appropriate book in one of the many web-based PD archives, preferably something that not many other people have discovered yet.
One good thing with this idea is that the book you showcase (and use to earn ad revenue) need not be confined to non-fiction or how-to. As with Steve's weird little golf/science fiction find, it can just be something that will attract users to your 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. And, how you "repurpose" your PD finds is entirely up to you. That's what makes it so much fun, as well as profitable.
This method of publishing public domain material is described at some length in this article, along with suggestions 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 an excellent review of it at Can You Still Make Money Selling Used Books on Amazon?
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