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Imagine a nearly endless gold mine of content you can use and republish in any way you want. That's what public domain works are. They're works of text, video, image or audio that has no copyright you need to worry about. For most marketers this is like a dream come true. The only problem is: How do you find copyright free books? Read on to learn a few easy ways to find public domain works.
Public Domain Texts Online
There are literally hundreds of thousands of pages of content online that are freely available. Project Gutenberg publishes many public domain works and makes them available completely free of charge.
There are many other websites online that publish public domain works for free as well. A careful search on Google will reveal many websites that may be helpful.
Government Resources
Anything that's published by the government is automatically copyright-free. For example, the transcripts, videos and audios of NASA space flights, declassified CIA reports and images that were taken in the military.
The list goes on and on. There is an unbelievable amount of content published by the government every year. There's content on everything from Real Estate to the economy to divorce rates to healthy eating habits, all completely free. Many marketers have made fortunes simply by taking information published by the government, repackaging it and selling it.
Find Public Domain Audio Books
There are plenty of audio books you can find online that are public domain. These audio books are usually read by a human voice who's volunteered to read the book free of charge. Again, you can simply download these audio books and republish them for your purposes.
For example, Napoleon Hill's famous “Think and Grow Rich” has been public domain for some time now. There are multiple versions of this book in audio book format that are all public domain. You could easily find an audio version of this book and republish it for your purposes.
Think and Grow Rich is a rather well known example. However, there are many more obscure books in the public domain for which you can find audio books for and republish.
Find Expired Copyright Books
A book that's published before 1923 is automatically considered public domain. If a book is published between 1923 and 1963, it's in public domain unless the copyright has been renewed. Often time's copyrights simply expire rather than become renewed.
You can find many of these books online at old online bookstores. Simply find a book that's still public domain and buy the book. You can have the book scanned and OCRed or transcribed by hand for a small price. This method is slightly more labor-intensive, but it has one big, big benefit over online public domain works: Nobody else is using it.
If you find an ancient book on Martial Arts, chances are nobody else in the world is using it. You can publish the book as your own and make a whole lot more money than a publicly available work.
Make Money Using Public Domain
As you can tell, there's a lot of money to be made in public domain. You can find a lot of public domain works online and offline for free. Don't miss out on this amazing resource for getting a ton of great content for your business for very little work.