Public Domain Books: Free to Use

Public Domain Books: What are these and how you can use them to further your business.

When working from home or doing an online business, you need lot of promotional materials that can be used to attract new potential customers. Here’s one resource that you can tap into for this purpose.

What are Public Domain Books?

So what exactly is a Public Domain Book?

If you own a website, I’m sure you would know that if you don’t renew your domain registration every year, it will expire and you can no longer use it.

Similarly, when an intellectual property restriction or copyright of a certain work expires, they enter into the public domain category.

And when this happens, you can access them for free. And that is why they are called “free public domain books”.

Wide Range of Topics

Free public domain books are basically works that talk about innovation or additional knowledge. They range from art, writing and music to inventions that were done in a creative and unique manner.

No one is allowed to gain full access to them when they are still copyrighted!

But once the date dictated on them has passed, people can therefore exploit and use these works legally for research and understanding.

Permission to Use

Most of these public domain books are usually accompanied with letters of permission that allow them to be to be used by anyone, after the restrictions expire. Some of them would read as follows:

1. The permission the author has given for his or her work to be put in public domain. That person grants everyone the right to use that certain work without any conditions required.
2. The holder of the copyright releasing a specific work because the copyright has already expired. When the extension for copyright is not possible, the public is given access to the works which they do not have the right to use before.

How Can It Help You?

Basically, you get access to unlimited information and resources. Here are some ways you can use these these free public domain books:

1. To Develop an idea that you have been working on for some time
2. To Back up a concept
3. Provide them as freebies to capture emails
4. Earn additional income by reselling them to other people (many are already doing it)

Best Sources of FREE PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOKS

• Project Gutenberg
• Europeana
• Digital Public Library of America
• Internet Archive
• Open Library
• Feedbooks
• Books Should Be Free
• The Literature Network
• Bartleby

How to Keep Your Work Private?

If you want to keep your works private (and not get labeled as a FREE Public domain), there are some steps that you need to take:

1. Use Trademarks: If renewal fees are constantly updated and paid, the owner is given the right to defend the registration and use the trademark continuously. Big companies make use of trademarks in order to avoid people copying or imitating their brand.
2. Apply for Patents: This is very important for writers and inventors who need to have sole ownership of what they have made/created.
3. Trade Secrets: Most companies and businesses have trade secrets that are guarded carefully so that they are not made public. Even if some of them are released in public domain, with a permission or without, the owner still has the right to apply for a patent for it, if proven that it belongs to him/her.

To Conclude

As you can see, there are several uses of free public domain books. There are lots of them out there so you need to spend some time finding the ones that would be useful to you. Make sure to use the ones that are legally and rightfully given out.

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