Looking for public domain products for your wine business? If you’re a wine connoisseur then an internet business based on wine probably sounds like a fantastic idea. The wine market is growing and many people are looking to learn more about the beverage that is not only delicious but also offers potential health benefits.
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Public domain content can be used to both market a wine business as well as to create products. The trick, however, is to find public domain content devoted to wine.
A truly excellent source of public domain texts can be found at the all encompassing archive.org. Visiting archive.org you can then choose what medium you wish to search. Click on ‘texts’ and search for wine and you’ll find 226 results.
Some of these texts are absolutely gorgeous. The images can be used to create products or marketing graphics and the texts can be reformatted or repackaged and sold. People have been writing about wine for as long as they’ve been drinking it, which means there are an abundance of texts available. Several other great sources for public domain books include:
- Authorama, http://www.authorama.com/
- Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Librivox, http://librivox.org/, which turns public domain books into audio books.
Take care to do some research and make sure everyone and their brother hasn’t already repackaged the same public domain book. For example, the The American Vine-Dresser’s Guide, a fantastic and still timely book, has been used to create blog posts and repackaged several times however the images may still be fair game for website or marketing graphics or to reformat and resell.
The Complete Cook, http://www.archive.org/details/completecookplai00sand, offers a section on wine making which could be offered as a bonus or a marketing tool to build an opt-in list.
So quick question…how do you know how many people are already using a particular public domain book?
Archive.org offers download statistics which can point you in the right direction however a quick online search with the book’s title as your keywords may provide more explicit results. You can see exactly how any particular book is being used and how it’s being repackaged or reformatted.
Another great site is the Internet Public Library, http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/, which when you search for your keywords, ‘wine’ for example, will give you a list of websites, books, and blogs devoted to the subject.
The wine niche provides a wealth of opportunity and books like The American Vine-Dresser’s Guide offer numerous opportunities to create products to market to this audience.
About The Author:
 Debra Conrad is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2007. She is also co-author of "The Public Domain Treasure Hunter's Survival Kit" available here. For more info Debra, click here. |
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