11.7 Add Public Domain Works To Your Site
One of the best kept secrets of free content comes in the form of Public Domain works. Basically, these are books, articles, recordings and pictures whose copyrights have expired. Since they have not been re-registered with a copyright, they enter the public domain. What does that mean? It means ANYONE (including you) can publish, re-publish and/or sell the works without paying a commission to anyone!
Think about this. You can build a site with HUNDREDS of pages just by publishing one public domain book on your site! Think of all the AdSense impressions you can deliver. The possibilities are endless.
I have two sources that you will want to investigate to find Public Domain works that you can begin using immediately
Idea #1 — Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books on the Internet. Their collection of more than 15,000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. As of this writing, the top 10 most popular works on Project Gutenberg are:
Manual of Surgery by Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E. A. Wallis Budge
Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the
Renaissance Period by Paul Lacroix
Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great -Volume 01 by ElbertHubbard
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci
Check out their entire library at www.gutenberg.org/
Please note that while you may republish these works on your site, you are not allowed to resell the works themselves.
The downside of using works from Project Gutenberg is that hundreds of other people may already be using them. You might opt for less popular works in order to get better search engine placement.
Idea #2 – Public Domain Riches
Very few people have mastered the art of turning public domain works to cash like Yanik Silver. Yanik has made a ton of money with public domain and his course shows you how you can do the same.
From Yanik’s web page, here is what you will learn in Public Domain Riches…
* The best places online (and off) to actually find public domain works. (I'll hand you over my best resources on a silver platter.)
* How to find a slew of public domain works in 3 minutes or less on just about any subject you want with just one click!
* How to determine exactly if a work is in the public domain. (Especially where to research if a work from 1923-1963 is really in the public domain. Remember, this is where the real bonanza of recent material can be found but this can also be a dangerous "gray area" for many works if you're not careful).
* How to tap into the vast repositories of government publications. Yes, Uncle Sam publishes more content than anyone else and much of it is -can I hear the magic word again? -FREE!
* What to do if someone challenges your public domain claim.
* How to wade through the deliberately misleading copyright notices on many works that should really be public domain. (But on the flipside -you'll want to know how to look threatening so any "Two-bit Johnny" won't rip off the material you found in the public domain.)
* The 7 different ways to profitably use public domain info.
* How to quickly and easily put public domain works into a "saleable" format.
* The secret to modifying public domain works so they are exclusively yours alone and then selling them for hundreds of dollars!
Yanik knows public domain, so you might want to check out Public Domain Riches.
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