Rewrite, Repackage, Recreate and Make Tons of Money from the Public Domain

The Internet is a huge place, packed with marketers, you have to be different, preferably unique, to grab your share of easy profits online.  Here are a few ideas to help you turn public domain items into unique products for your business:

*  Recreate collections of products on CD or DVD.  These collections can be specific or non-specific, as for example, ‘100 Magic eBooks’ and ‘2001 All Subject eBooks’, respectively.  Generally speaking specific theme collections are more in demand and attract higher prices than general collections comprising immense numbers of titles about many different subjects.

*  Combine several books from the public domain, in part or complete, into your own unique product.  So your book ‘The World’s 1001 Best Chocolate Cake Recipes’ might include the most attractive and tastiest chocolate cakes from dozens of early publications.  There are two main benefits for the publisher here, one being the very remote chance that anyone else will choose the exact same recipes from the public domain for their new publications, so making your product unique.  The other advantage, in this case focussing on food, is one of allowing you to choose recipes for which ingredients are readily available, and to dismiss any which may be inappropriate today, because they are considered unhealthy, for example, or ingredients are not universally acceptable (whale fat, hog’s head, blackbirds’ tongues, etc.)

More Ideas:

‘The World’s Greatest Cat and Dog Tales’.

‘(Location) described by Travel Writers from 1800 to 1900’.

‘A Collection of Tales About London by Famous Victorian Writers’

*  Combine different media types and increase the perceived value of your products.  Downloadable eBooks and email attachments have low perceived value, sadly, and often caused by unprofessional marketers selling products for pennies and caring little about content or presentation of those products.  Their lack of regard for readers gives the whole industry a bad name and lowers the perceived value of downloadable eBooks and attachments, even for quality products.  Overcome this growing problem by avoiding purely downloadable and attachment products, use print or CD format where possible or, better still, combine product types which not only represents great value for money but creates fabulous illustrations to help sell your products.