The public domain contains hundreds of short stories, legendary tales and poems from many time periods just waiting to be rediscovered. You can use public domain short stories for blogs or ebooks!

Ask anyone and they can probably remember with fondness a favorite story from their own childhood. These old stories are very popular with just about everyone – because anyone can relate to them, from children to adults.

They range from romance to adventure, science fiction to fantasy, mystery and even horror. Even stories written by obscure or unknown authors can become popular again.

You can find just about any type of story to appeal to any audience simply by doing a quick search at http://www.archive.org/index.php.

In a nutshell, any written works published before 1923 are now considered “in the public domain”, which means they can be used by anyone in their own written works for profit.

So how can one earn money from these short stories or poems?

There are several ways.

• The easiest and most popular way to create revenue from old stories is to create an organized collection of these stories with similar themes and posting them on a blog or website. People can search by topic and locate their most loved stories.
• You can even create a forum where people can talk about the stories or tales with others. This creates a nostalgia and a place where others will come back to see more over and over again.

So where does the revenue come in? By adding affiliate links on related topics and Google Adsense ads, the viewers of your website or blog will click on them to find more information, thus generating a passive income from those clicks for you. (Be sure to post in related forums and websites more information about your sites so that you will get even more web traffic for your efforts.)

Create an ebook of Copyright Free Short Stories

The second way you can generate income from copyright free short stories is to take that same collection and create an e-book.

Be creative and think about why a reader would want to seek out those stories in the first place.

• Is it to recreate a sense of joy from a happier childhood time? Then create an e-book that will appeal to that type of reader.
• You can even design e-books based on holidays or special events. Birthdays, Christmas, Easter rank as some of the more popular themes that will sell well to your audience.
• Gather up a series of at least six stories, group them into one e-book and sell it as one written work. You can include illustrations and graphics that would be included in that time period as well, be careful that they are royalty free images however to steer clear of copyright infringement.

Overall, have fun finding interesting stories and recreating the excitement about them, and make money at the same time!

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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