Give E-Books a Face-lift and Make Money At The Same Time
Have you noticed how successful companies these days keep on packaging and re-packaging their products over and over?
Essentially, it is the same product but because of the face-lift, they somehow get it into the minds of their consumers that it is a wholly new and different product.
Walt Disney even made use of this great business strategy. He came up with a new way of telling old fairy tales, giving the stories a wholly refreshing feel to them. You can do this, too, with an old public domain story.
Just choose the public domain work you want. Create a revised edition of it and then sell it as your own. Or, make as many revisions as you can until what emerges is a product that is so completely radical from the original though both are still essentially similar, then file for a copyright notice, and the work becomes another original.
Sell this new work as your own and earn royalties from distributors. Additionally, because of the copyright protection attached it, no one else can copy your ideas. This means the work is completely yours – free for your use, private or otherwise.
Giving public domain works a face-lift does not take a creative genius to do it. So do not feel intimidated by it all.
The whole thing can be simple; just change the format of a work by doing any or all of the following:
· Make the type face cleaner;
· Make the text more attractive by arranging them into sidebars and tables. This would make the content so much easier to read than blocked text arranged in a boring, monotonous paragraph;
· Add graphics, headings, or color texts;
· Make a few actual changes to the text, either by adding new material or subtracting unnecessary lines.
After all that, your book or e-book is now considered officially “revised” and you can start redistributing them through your own website or webpage or through large publishing sites like Amazon.com.
**NOTE: If you only made minor revisions to a public domain work and did not make any actual changes to the context, then it is not advisable to file for a separate copyright notice for the “new” work. If you must protect your product, then use the protection feature that most e-book creation software offer – one that makes it possible for you to protect your files from major theft and tampering.