Ever heard of the book 'Think and Grow Rich' by Napoleon Hill? Are you aware that it's in the public domain? In fact, it's probably one of the most popular public domain books that can be found on the internet today. As you may know, once a book has been completed, it immediately comes under copyright protection; however, after the demise of the author, the copyright of the text automatically expires after a certain number of years. Thereafter, the book falls into the public domain, which then gives you the opportunity to re-write
its content, claim copyright on it and even profit from it!
If you head over to Google and look up 'Think and Grow Rich,' you'll come across plenty of sites that are either giving away the book for free (in exchange for your email address), or selling it for a profit. Hint: you could do the same too! And you won't be infringing on any copyrights, because as mentioned above, this book is now in the public domain.
Now one of the best resources you can use to dig up fantastic public domain material online is Project Gutenburg. You may access it here - http://gutenburg.org/. They have a massive and impressive collection of PD works on practically every topic under the sun. Any famous work that you may know of that was written and published in the 1920's or earlier is quite possibly in the public domain now, and you can browse through the listings of Project Gutenburg to see if you can grab a copy of it for yourself.
Customizing your public domain book
Since the product belongs to the public domain, you may sell it as is, for a profit. However, if you choose to customize and add value to the book, you will stand out from the rest of
the crowd, thereby increasing your chances of generating a higher profit margin. One way of doing this is to edit and update its existing content to make it more suitable and appealing to a modern audience. You could also liven up the text by tweaking the font size and type and inserting attractive pictures and diagrams where relevant. You can even re-publish the book in a different format (eg: PDF format).
The end result?
A unique creation that you can have copyrighted under your name!
Another idea would be to take a selection of public domain books on a
certain niche topic (eg: gardening) and highlight the best paragraphs in each of these works. Next, you want to organize all of the content, arrange it in order and publish it in PDF format...and hey presto, you've got yourself a brand new product. Thereafter, simply set up a one-page website, write out a persuasive sales letter and implement a shopping cart system - you're now ready to sell your ebook and make money online!
The bottom line is this...
By modifying and enhancing an existing public domain product, you can easily create a new and unique ebook...without
having to do all the 'heavy lifting' that's usually involved in writing one from scratch. In other words, using top notch public domain material is one of the smartest and easiest ways of coming up with an exclusive, new ebook that has the potential to generate many sales for you - month after month - on total auto-pilot.
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