Making Money from Public Domain Books

I used to assume that people who sold eBooks on eBay had to be really creative or were from China and pirating the books without copyright laws. This changed when I started clicking on people’s ads on eBay and in their disclaimers it said “Use of this material is protected under public domain.” What in the world did that mean?

This means that anything in www.gutenberg.org is considered too old to have any copyrights and is considered public domain for anyone’s use. This explains why bookstores like Barnes and Noble sell their “classics” series for around $5 when a normal book costs around $15. The bookstores have known about these websites forever and have been selling us free merchandise under our nose. This gets even worse when they try to sell us the classic books on our nooks and e Readers. Is it considered bad if one sells something free for profit to people who don’t know about it though?

Most of the people who buy the auctions on eBay for 17000+ ebooks for nook and kindle for around $5 don’t care that all of those books were downloaded on a free website. Some people who know about the websites still have no interest in downloading all of them on their own and are willing to spend $5 for a cd with all of the titles already downloaded.

The key is to find a niche of books to sell to people. This is like 1000 of the best mystery novels, 100 romantic and erotica books and even 100 best classic books. Each of these niches will ensure people who are searching for a lot of ebooks will find one they need. This is because most people don’t need 17000 books at once and want a specific genre.

The next component of a successful auction is to make sure you put each specific e reader and format in your auction title. This means “100 of the best classic books for kindle epub format”. This broadens your buying audience to people with kindles, epub formats, and ones looking for a classic book collection of ebooks.

I have used this strategy myself and have made over 100+ dollars a week by burning a cd with free ebooks off of this website in certain niches.


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