Public Domain Books

Vintage Public Domain Americana – The American Girl’s Handy Book (1893)

I was digging around at the Internet Archive today and fished out this little gem of vintage Public Domain Americana…
“The American Girl’s Handy Book”, originally published in 1893, is a fun book specifically aimed at girls and contains a whopping 500 pages of 19th century “old world charm”. This book is just practically oozing with nostalgia!
Written [...]

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Public Domain Book Spotlight: The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain (1840)

I virtually stumbled over this incredible Public Domain book in two volumes on the Internet Archive a few weeks ago…
It’s called “The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain” published in London in 1840.
While I expected to find a whole bunch of useful text content describing various landmarks of Great Britain from a [...]

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Public Domain Book Spotlight – Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms Of Nature) 1904

Today, I wanted to share an amazing Public Domain book I’ve been working with called Kunstformen der Natur (German for Artforms of Nature) published in 1904 and written / illustrated by zoologist, biologist, and artist Ernst Haeckel.
I’m planning to use the amazing prints in this book (100 total) to create several spin-off products. If you’ve [...]

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Is It OK To Use Google’s Public Domain Books For Commercial Purposes?

A couple of weeks ago, while gathering material for my article, “Is It OK To Use Public Domain Books From The Internet Archive For Commercial Purposes?”, I remembered an article I had bookmarked several years ago regarding Google Book Search and the “Usage Guidelines” that are ever present in the front matter of the Public [...]

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Is It OK To Use Public Domain Books From The Internet Archive For Commercial Purposes?

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time at all, you’ll know that The Internet Archive is one of our most favorite online resources of Public Domain material, particularly books.
The Internet Archive is awesome and I spend waaayyy more time there every week then I should but that’s another story…
We get asked [...]

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Cater To Collectors Of Anything With Expertly Written Public Domain Content

Do you collect anything?
Are you extremely passionate about whatever it is that you collect?
If so, you’re certainly not alone!
People all over the world collect all kind of things ~ comic books, sports memorabilia, postage stamps, artwork, ceramics, figurines, shot glasses, movie posters ~ you name it, somebody somewhere collects it!
And…usually not just one person, but large [...]

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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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Feeding America: The Historic American (Public Domain) Cookbook Project

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 [...]

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The University of Oldenburg ~ Digitized 19th Century Public Domain Children’s Books

I love vintage Public Domain children’s books…
I don’t know why, but they hold a great attraction for me, always have.
This week, I spent a little time checking out a German site that has a nice little repository of 19th century Public Domain children’s books…
http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/retrodig/
The majority of the books are printed in the German language (what [...]

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Can I Really Do Anything I Want With The Books That I Download From Project Gutenberg?

 A reader sent in a question today about the legalities of using Public Domain texts downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
This question has actually come across the Support Desk a few times this week from some our newer readers so I thought I would answer the question here publicly so that everyone can benefit from the answer.
Here was the [...]

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