One of the easiest things to do with public domain material is to simply make a
collection of works. It is best to deal with works that are short, such as poems
and short stories. There are several directions that you can go with this. I
will give you a few suggestions here. Mind you, these are not the be all and end
all. They are just a few of the many things you can do.

The first thing is to go with the most popular public domain poet or author that
you can find. Take their most famous works, probably about 8 to 12, and put them
into a book. Will there be other books out there with these collections?
Probably, but at least you know there will be a demand for them. To get your
share of the pie, simply use the advertising methods I’ve outlined in previous
articles and get the word out. You’ll make your share of sales with hard work.

Another route you can go is to take the same famous author and find their lesser
known works. Then, publish a book with a title something like ‘The Unknown Works
of’ or ‘The Little Known Works of’ This is certainly to draw some interest from
fans of the author who aren’t familiar with these works.

Some people take a totally different direction. They look for works from a
relatively unknown author. The first thing they do though is to read these works
to see if they are any good. If they find a gold mine, they publish these works
using a title something like ‘The Literary Genius of the Unknown’ The people you
are going to attract with this kind of book are avid readers who are constantly
looking for old authors that nobody has ever heard of. Believe me, they exist,
the authors and the people looking for them.

Now, the above is a small market because there aren’t that many of these people.
But, there is also almost no competition either. This is kind of like long tail
keyword promotion where you find a niche where very few people are doing
searches each month combined with a very few number of competing sites coming up
in the search. In the case of public domain works, this competition will be even
less. Why? The same reason why you took a look at this topic and said to
yourself, ‘Why would anybody care?’ Well, if you just type the words ‘public
domain’ into a Google search engine, you will find over 62 million sites. If
there is that much info out there on public domain, then somebody has got to be
interested in this stuff, otherwise a lot of people are wasting a lot of time.

The things that you can do with public domain works are limited only by your
imagination. The point is, there are a ton of works out there that you don’t
have to do much with in order to make an income from them. You just have to find
the time to put in the legwork to first find the work, and then decide what it
is you want to do with it.

And again, for those of you who think there is no money in stuff that is almost
100 years old, take a look at what Walt Disney did and what Ted Turner just
recently did with all those public domain movies.

The money is there to be had. You just have to go out and get it.

One of the easiest things to do with public domain material
is to simply make a collection of works. It is best to deal
with works that are short, such as poems and short stories.
There are several directions that you can go with this. I
will give you a few suggestions here. Mind you, these are
not the be all and end all. They are just a few of the many
things you can do.

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For those of us who are non lawyers, finding out whether a work is in the public
domain can be quite complicated. Get the help of a lawyer friend if you have, or
search the internet for easy steps to determine the status of a work. If the
work is determined to be for public use, you can do pretty much what you want
with it.

So the first mistake is not checking properly if the work is really of public
domain. If the work is really in the public domain, you can use the work as you
deem fit without informing the author. If you change and edit the work, you can
claim the works with you as the author.

So what can you do with public domain works? You can use the entire work, or
just use a certain part of the work. You can digitize old books to sell as
e-books, and you can also explore other formats of public domain works such as
film, audio or photos.

The second mistake comes after you have substantially edited, updated and
improved on the original material. You can and need to copyright it! For
example, even if you extract different parts of photos or written material from
20 different works that you can legally use, you can still copyright it and put
your name as the author!

So here are the top 2 mistakes that most people make when using public domain
works in e-books or other information products to make money online. To explain
the whole legal process of checking whether the work is really legally possible
for you use or edit and call your own or not will take a much longer article to
explain, so do consult your lawyer friends or search the internet for more in
depth information on it.

The whole internet marketing game takes time to master, so learn from those who
have been there to shorten your learning time, and avoid painful mistakes.

For those of us who are non lawyers, finding out whether a
work is in the public domain can be quite complicated. Get
the help of a lawyer friend if you have, or search the
internet for easy steps to determine the status of a work.
If the work is determined to be for public use, you can do
pretty much what you want with it.

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The first thought that enters everyone’s mind when thinking maps is just
reprinting them in a variety of formats and selling them as reproductions. This
is a very good way to earn an income from public domain maps. Prices you can
charge vary based on type of paper being used and the size of the reproduction.
Wide format reprints printed on archival papers or canvas can get as much as
$100 or more at a reproduction cost of $20-$30 depending on materials and size
of the print.

But reprinting maps is only one way that you can earn money in this lucrative
field.

Aside from the standard idea of making prints or wide format prints of maps,
there are many other great ways to earn an income from public domain maps.

1) You could print postcards of maps or particular scenes in maps. Many of the
old maps are beautiful and have many fascinating scenes contained within them
that would make excellent postcards or postcard sets. As an idea, you could make
a postcard set of a popular tourist town, get them professionally printed and
sell them to all the gift shops in that town.

2) You could make mousepads of maps. And with a service like cafepress
(http://www.cafepress.com), you can completely automate the manufacturing and
delivery. Lots of history buffs would love having an old map of their home town
or of the Civil War or of any other notable period of history they fancy.

3) You could create compilations of related maps on a CD or DVD. Make
collections of civil war maps, town maps for a particular state old gold mining
maps, etc.

4) You could compile a collection of maps with descriptions into a book (and
again use a service like cafepress to produce them on demand.) If you’ve been in
a bookstore, you will see these collections selling at a very good price.
Popular topics for map books include war strategy maps and early exploration
maps.

5) You could use the maps to build a variety of interesting screensavers. There
are many free or low cost screensaver programs available to help you build your
custom screensavers. You can sell the screensavers of offer them for a free
download in return for building a mailing list or introducing people to your
website.

6) If you are ambitious, you could use something like the old panoramic maps at
the Library of Congress to build advertising pieces – like restaurant placements
- for the towns that are represented in the collection. The map would be in the
center with the ads around the edge.

7) You could produce any type of hardgood – mugs, t-shirts, etc. with map
images. Cafepress offers a variety of items that you can print on. They even let
you build your very own store where customers can shop. They do all the back
office work and you collect a check based on your sales. So with Cafepress, you
could build your very own map t-shirt and mug store if you wanted.

That is certainly enough ideas to help get your creative juices revved up to the
non traditional possibilities of public domain map revenue opportunities.

One of the best sources of public domain maps is the Library of Congress:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html.

Public domain maps are a goldmine of untapped income
opportunities. This article explores seven non-traditional
methods that a product developer could use to generate a
substantial income based on public domain maps.

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One of the biggest challenges of working with the public domain is finding the
exact materials you want to use.

With the exception of some megasites, digitized public domain materials are
literally scattered in thousands of places on the web. That means that you will
often find yourself spending hours with your favorite search engine digging up
nuggets you can use for your latest project. It also means that you are going
to stumble across many sources of material that aren’t what you are looking
for.

When I search, I’ll generally stumble across 20 or more public domain
repositories before finding exactly what I want.

Now if I’m in a rush, I just keep moving on until I fund exactly what I’m
looking for and them move forward on the project. But when I have a bit of
extra time, I start adding these sites to my list of public domain bookmarks so
I will have them available to me at a later date for future projects.

Your web browser’s favorites folder is the perfect place for all these
resources. With just a few clicks, you can add another resource to your growing
list of personal public domain bookmarks. There are a few keys you must follow
to mazimize the use of your browser’s favorites function however.

• Organization is the first key. Create a folder called something like “public
  domain links.” Below that folder, create additional folders as needed to help
  organize your links into categories. For instance, you might have a section
  devoted to sheet music, another section devoted to mythology books, another to
  Civil War images and so on. You can even create subfolders of these folders to
  really drill down the categories.

• Good descriptions is the second key. You can personally label each bookmark so
  you know what it is about later. By writing your own description about the
  contents of the link, the next time you need resources for category X, you
  just scan the bookmarks you have for that category and go right to the
  resources. That means no more time invested in searching (unless of course you
  need to find more materials – which you can again add to your growing bookmark
  list.)

By taking a bit of extra time when doing your public domain searches to create
a useful and usable list of bookmarks, your product development based on public
domain materials will become more and more efficient. So take the time on your
next search to being creating your very own bookmark list.

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Want To Create Extra Streams Of Income? Try Marketing Information In The Public
Domain

Are you having problems financing your invention?

Do you need a powerful but inexpensive “give-away” to help convince people to
sign-up for your free on-line newsletter or your next fee-based teleforum?

Do you need information for your book or audio tape which you can quickly access
and drop in as a special chapter or section without spending any money — or
doing any work?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you will find the rich
resources you need in the public domain. (See previous article for detailed
discussion on the public domain.) And, because this information is absolutely
free to use however you see fit, you not only can access it at no cost, you can
also repackage it, market it and create a stream of income to help finance your
other projects or to simply add to your bottom line.

While books in the public domain are the most common resource used for this type
of marketing, don’t overlook music, photographs, government documents, film
clips, old movies and the like.

To get you started, here are 5 key marketing strategies for converting
information in the public domain into profitable information products:

1. Spot A Trend, Find “How-To” Information On The Topic & Create An E-book.
People are always looking for solutions to problems. Let’s take an example: You
begin reading news articles about the popularity of the King Charles Terrier
among Baby Boomers. Of course, this is no surprise to you: You adopted one of
these adorable dogs a few months ago. Then you spot a few more of these puppies
in your neighborhood. Suddenly, you realize that all these new owners must be
wondering how to housebreak their new pets. So, you do a bit a research in the
public domain, find several resources and compile your new e-book, How To Turn
Your King Charles Terrier Into The Perfect Pet: Learn My 5 Secrets To Quick,
Effective House Training. Of course, you personalize your book with stories
about how you used these principles to house train your own “best friend.”

Whatever topic you choose for your public domain information product, always
remember to define a target market first. Then, select a topic from the top “how
to” e-book subjects: money, health, leisure/travel, saving time, pets, diet,
cooking, health, time management and relationships. Next research the popularity
of your choice by checking internet key words. Finally, begin your marketing
campaign.

2. Turn Your “How To” E-book Into An Audio Product. In today’s hectic
environment, people who won’t make time to read will often take time to listen
to an audio tape or CD while driving to and from work. Whether you create an
audio book by simply reading and recording it “as is” or by modifying it to fit
into your own work, the conversion to a tape or CD increases the works perceived
and real value. While most e-books sell for between $19 and $39, audio products
are usually priced between $69 and $99.

3. Create CDs, Picture Books Or Videos From Public Domain Recordings.
Researching and creating these types of products can be more complex and a bit
more risky to market, so you may want to try this after you’ve successfully
produced a few “how to” products. They key to your success in this area is
selecting one or two very well-defined niche markets. For example, a product
highlighting films of 20th Century Inventions is most likely to appeal to
inventors and educators (two large niche markets).

4. Convert Government Booklets & Information Into “How to” Products. The
vast majority of United States government publications and website information
is in the public domain. A particularly wealthy source of “how to” information
is available through the Small Business Association (SBA) on topics like: how to
start a small business; how to start a restaurant; how to get business
financing; how to make your hobby pay; tax advantages of a home-based business;
and how to own and operate a bed and breakfast. And, remember: these topics only
scratch of the surface of government resources available for your use.

5. Give Away A Public Domain Work As An Incentive. Want someone to subscribe to
your e-newsletter? Offer them a free e-book on a topic related to the subject
of your newsletter. Want someone to purchase your public domain e-book? Offer
them a free 5-day e-course providing a few key highlights from the book, then
invite them to purchase the book to learn more. Not every way you use material
from the public domain must be related to the internet. For example, if you do
any amount of public speaking, offering a free public domain product after you
speak is an excellent way to draw people to your “back-of-the-room” table where
you also have books and audio products for sale.

Rosemary Hauschild is an innovation and creativity business coach serving
individuals developing intellectual property. Impact Coaching International

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