Google got in trouble for seeking to digitize books with legally enforceable copyrights.
Now Yahoo et al are planning to do the same with the classics.
Read through and I’ll pass an idea along that may allow you to profit while working from home…
From BizJournals.com
A group including Yahoo Inc., Adobe Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Labs said on Monday that they plan to digitize classic books and papers to make them available on the Web.
An effort by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to digitize libraries of books has been controversial because it is doing so regardless of the copyright status of the works.
The new Open Content Alliance said it plans to respect the rights of copyright holders and it will be governed by its contributors.
Initial content will be provided by founding members including the University of California, the University of Toronto, the National Archives (UK), O’Reilly Media Inc., and the European Archive.
Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) will power the search engine on the group’s Web site and all its content will be made available through Yahoo Search. Once content is available through the OCA, any search engine will be able to index it. “
There are a variety of “Public Domain Profits” programs available. Adrian Ling is a reputable product provider and you may wish to consider his information on the topic of profiting from books now in the Public Domain.
No matter how you obtain your public domain document, there are several ways to profit…
1. Sell the entire work as an ebook from your website using a service like Clickbank or Payloadz.
2. Transform the content into html and monetize it with a pay per click program like Google’s Adsense (This may be a hard way to make money if your public domain book is on “buggy whips”… very low demand for that term!)
3. For smaller books, pamphlets etc, you may be able to give the ebook away free while integrating related affiliate links.
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