SUBJECT: Lesson #4 - Making Money With Your Public Domain eBook

One of the easiest ways to earn money from public domain e-books
is duplicating the exact content of public domain works and
re-selling them. 

Since the product is already in the public domain, there are no
royalties and no worries about copyright infringement. You do
not even have to get permission from the original author in
order to excerpt, reprint, or advertise their products. 

You can make as many copies as you want of the original public
domain work, convert them into downloadable e-book format (See
previous section for instructions on how to create an e-book)
and can start re-selling, re-distributing, and reaping the
profits.

Give E-Books a Face-lift and Make Money 

Have you noticed how successful companies re-package their
products over and over? 

Walt Disney made use of this great business strategy. He came up
with a new way of telling old fairy tales, giving the stories a
refreshing feel. You can do this, too, with an old public domain
story.

Just choose the public domain work you want. Create a revised
edition of it and then sell it as your own. Or, rework the
piece, add your own style, repackage it and sell it as your own.
Because of the copyright protection attached to it, no one else
can copy your work. This means the work is completely yours –
free for your use, private or otherwise.

Giving public domain work a face-lift does not take a creative
genius. The whole thing can be simple; just change the format of
a work by doing any or all of the following:

• Make the type face cleaner;

• Make the text more attractive by arranging it into sidebars
and tables. This would make the content much easier to read than
blocked text arranged in a boring, monotonous paragraph;

• Add graphics, headings, or color texts;

• Make a few actual changes to the text, either by adding new
material or subtracting unnecessary lines.

• turn a book into an audio or video

**NOTE: If you only made minor revisions to a public domain work
and did not make any actual changes to the content, it is not
advisable to file for a separate copyright notice for the “new”
work. If you must protect your product, then use the protection
feature that most e-book creation software offers – one that
makes it possible for you to protect your files from major theft
and tampering. 

In our next email I'll share some 'outside-of-the-box' tips for
making money with public domain pictures and where to sell them!


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