Domain Sniper by Shane Purcell (if you liked this book TXT) 📕

the public domain that incites your passion,
now is the time for you to generate sales. Here are some tips to help you:

Re-sell, Re-distribute, and Reap the Profits

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;

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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;
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Add graphics, headings, or color texts;
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Make a few actual changes to the text, either by adding new material or
subtracting unnecessary lines.
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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.

Recreate Public Domain Images and Sell Them

Besides modernizing public domain text, another alternative is recreating
copyright-free images. Again, you do not have to be an artist to do this sort of
thing. You do, however, need to know a little about digital art software like
Photoshop or Corel Draw.


With the help of a good image editing software, you can make alterations in a
public domain image, depicting tired old works like Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or
Picasso’s Woman in front of the Mirror in a humorous twist.


In fact, there may already be several funny depictions of these works circulating
the net – propaganda posters like the US Government’s We Can Do It!,
Leonardo da Vinci’s The Vetruvian Man, and many more. These images are in
the public domain so they are free for use by the public any which way they want.


Once you have a collection of these “modernized” public domain images, you
can group them and publish them as themed calendars, posters, bumper
stickers, coffee mugs, or other gift items. You can even print your products and
sell them online as t-shirts, hats, book bags, cards, and more.


There are two ways of doing this. You can hire a company that specializes in
promotional products. Have them make an inventory of all your altered public
domain images so you can store them and ship them whenever a buyer decides
to purchase from your site. Or, you can enlist the services of a Print on Demand
company like Café Press or Lulu and let them reproduce or reprint copies of your
public domain images.


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Redistribute Public Domain Works on eBay


Right now, eBay is one of the most powerful websites for selling products to the
world. Based on auction-style selling, buyers can bid on a product up until the
time deadline and then the highest bid wins the product.

Make CD Versions of Public Domain Work

Repackaging public domain work on CDs gives your business a new dimension
and it's easy to do.

CD versions of public domain works are especially profitable if you are making
revisions or updates on an existing product.

How to Convert your E-Book into Articles or E-Courses

Not everyone will find a book-length public domain work appealing. Most online
users are browsers and scanners, so they like to consume information in bite
size pieces.

Instead of offering them an entire e-book, you can offer them a series of articles
or an e-course. It can take as little as an hour to convert your e-book into an e-
course. Simply separate the chapters into bite size pieces and load them into
your autoresponder, or present them on your website as individual pages.

Create Amazing Titles

The title of your e-book, e-course or articles is the key to getting people to read.
Instead of “Flower Gardens” embellish a bit and turn your title into something like
“10 Easy Steps to Make Your Own Backyard Oasis”?

If you post a list of the article titles in your series or a lesson plan of your e-
course, readers will be drawn in and start placing orders.

Link Building

The core of internet marketing is link building. When you post articles to article
directories, your link points back to your website. When you trade links with other
related sites, those links point back to your website too. As you increase the
number of links to your website, the search engines take notice and you get
listed higher in the rankings. As you list higher in the search engines, you get
more visitors and eventually, more sales.


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**NOTE: Some website owners will be grateful to you for providing their links and
to show your gratitude they may even be willing to link back to you. Try to explore
this aspect of link building and see what possibilities open up for you.

Automate Everything

To keep your subscribers updated and to send your articles and e-courses, you
need an autoresponder. An autoresponder is simply your email management
program. It sends email for you on a pre-scheduled basis. You enter your
messages into the system once and the software sends them for you forever.

CONCLUSION

Using the public domain can be a cash cow. You have very little product
development time and you have an endless source of raw material. Your only
limitation is your imagination, so let those creative juices flow and who knows,
maybe you'll be the next Walt Disney :)

I wish you much success.

Shane Purcell
IM Newbie Superstar

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Publication Date: 11-27-2010

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