Debra

Republishing U.S. Public Domain Works In The U.K.

“Hi Logan & Debra, love your emails and work. I have become very familiar with copyright law and the differences between U.S. and U.K. law (I am in the U.K.).
There is something I just can’t seem to find the answer on though. In the U.S. everything published before 1923 is out of copyright and [...]

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How To Scan Public Domain Books – Tips From A Professional Book Scanner

[The following is a special guest article from Timo of BookScanning.com:]
Now that you’ve found a copyright-free article or Public Domain book, how do you get it into your computer for editing?
Well, you have two choices…

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How Do I Make Money With Public Domain Japanese Prints?

I recently had a question regarding my article, A Hidden Treasure Trove Of Public Domain Japanese Woodblock Prints And Drawings.
It really is a good question and I want to share my answer here in case you find yourself asking the same thing…

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A Hidden Treasure Trove Of Public Domain Japanese Woodblock Prints And Drawings

How would you like private access to a secret vault filled with more than 2500 stunningly beautiful Japanese paintings and drawings that you can do anything you want with including using them to create framed art, posters, clothing, and more?
You’ll find exactly that in the Library of Congress special collection that I’m about to share [...]

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Death Ship Titanic ~ The Story of the Public Domain’s Deadliest Maritime Disaster

Even though it’s been almost 100 years since the doomed ocean-liner sank beneath the waves to it’s watery demise, the story of the Titanic and it’s ill-fated maiden voyage still holds a special place in the public eye…
It seems people just can’t get enough of this story and understandably so ~ the story of the [...]

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Old Book Art – Thousands of Free Pictures, Drawings, Maps, and Images

Here’s a fun site where you’ll find thousands of book plates and other images scanned from Public Domain books. The scans are mostly captured from books that pass through the collection of online book dealer, ZephyrusBooks.com which specializes in used, out-of-print, antiquarian and collectible books (highly recommended by the way).
From the site:
“On this site are scanned [...]

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SearchSpy – The “Laziest” Way of Stimulating New Product Ideas Ever!

Are you struggling to come up with ideas for info product topics and niche markets to pursue online?
Here’s a fun free tool that practically guarantees a notebook full of ideas to explore.
This tool has got to be the laziest way of stimulating new ideas that I have ever seen – and that’s a good thing!
It [...]

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Using Public Domain Content For Local Offline Marketing

I have a friend that has a highly profitable offline Information Publishing business catering to a very tightly focused market ~ Veterinarians.
She has no website, she has very little overhead, she has no employees (in her info publishing business anyway) and yet she produces a product using 100% Public Domain content that she sells to [...]

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Profit Frog – Hundreds of Public Domain “Profitable Hobbies” Magazine Articles & More

Here’s an odd yet very interesting and potentially profitable site – ProfitFrog.com.
One of the things that attracted me to this site is the fact that it hosts reprints of exactly 350 articles from the Public Domain magazine “Profitable Hobbies”…
From the site:
“From 1945 through 1956 Profitable Hobbies magazine published hundreds of ways that men and women made money [...]