Kids love pictures in books… we all do. Are you ready to publish a public domain product for children? What about an entire series of of books about the Animal Kingdom filled with photos, drawings and paintings?
Why would you want to grab this public domain book series on animals?
You could appeal to an animal niche [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Public Domain Books'
More Public Domain Product Ideas For Children
September 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Public Domain Books
Public Domain Content Makes Great Products For Aspiring Artists
September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Hidden Public Domain Treasures, Public Domain Books, Public Domain Images
Ever wonder how artists create those outrageous cartoon caricatures?
The Art of Caricaturing by Mitchell Smith, published in 1941, is available in the Public Domain in the U.S. and all countries following the rule of the shorter term because the copyright holder (FREDERICK J. DRAKE & CO.) failed to renew the copyright protection for the book in the 28th year [...]
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Public Domain Author Spotlight: H. Rider Haggard, Adventure Novelist
August 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Public Domain Authors, Public Domain Books
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.
Haggard is most famous as the author [...]
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Public Domain Author Spotlight: Orison Swett Marden, Self-help Guru
August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Public Domain Authors, Public Domain Books
Orison Swett Marden (1850 – 1924) was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. He also held a degree in medicine, and was a successful hotel owner.
Marden was born in Thornton Gore, New Hampshire to Lewis and Martha Marden. When he was three years old, his mother died at the age of 22, [...]
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How To Scan Public Domain Books – Tips From A Professional Book Scanner
July 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Public Domain Books, Public Domain How-To
[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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Japanese Fairy Tales In The Public Domain
July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Hidden Public Domain Treasures, Public Domain Books
I was on one of my daily adventures in archive.org land the other day when I ran across the “Japanese Fairy Tales Series” published circa 1885.
Essentially the “series” consists of twenty traditional Japanese Fairy Tales retold in English and elaborately adorned with colorful illustrations. Each book in the series is roughly 20 -26 pages long.
These Public Domain [...]
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Death Ship Titanic ~ The Story of the Public Domain’s Deadliest Maritime Disaster
June 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Hidden Public Domain Treasures, Product Ideas, Public Domain Books
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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Profit Frog – Hundreds of Public Domain “Profitable Hobbies” Magazine Articles & More
May 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Hidden Public Domain Treasures, Public Domain Books, Public Domain Magazines
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 [...]
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Feeding America: The Historic American (Public Domain) Cookbook Project
April 24th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Hidden Public Domain Treasures, Public Domain Books
What could possibly be better than one really good Public Domain Cookbook?
How ’bout 76 of ‘em?!
Ever considered creating your very own Public Domain Cookbook publishing empire?
If so, here’s a very good place to start…
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
This incredible collection of vintage cookbooks is well worth taking note of especially if you need content for [...]
Baldwin Library of Children’s Literature – 5,704 Children’s Books, Majority Public Domain
April 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Hidden Public Domain Treasures, Public Domain Books
Here’s an outstanding collection of book scans dating back to the late 1800′s…
Collection home page:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=juv&m=hh
Browse entire collection by thumbnails:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=juv&m=hbhall
Description from the site:
The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 100,000 volumes published in Great Britain and the United [...]
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