How to grab Public Domain Works off the 'net and Turn it into a
PDF for FREE!
Excertped from The Writer's Package Version of "Open Your Daily
Newspaper & MAKE MONEY!" Copyright 2005 Found Secrets
How To Grab Public Domain & (Other Non-copyrighted Works) Off Of
The 'Net and Turn Them (As Well As Other written Works Into PDFs)
For those unaware of the cash potential of Public Domain, this
could be one of the most exciting articles you have ever seen.
For those of you who have heard of Public Domain, but haven't
figured out how to get hold of these gems, this article could be
invaluable to you.
Although we cover it a little more later on in this article as
to how we have used Public Domain, suffice it to say that you
can do almost anything with a work that is in the Public Domain.
(We give a couple examples later on in this article.)
We are not going to cover where to pick up Public Domain works.
Most people already know how and where to get that information,
with the most notable place being The Gutenberg project:
http://www.gutenberg.org
But, there is also an excellent listing of other Public Domain
works at:
http://www.booksforabuck.com/general/pubsources.html
Although it is possible to get books after 1923 that are in the
Public Domain, we are not going to go into how to do that. Our
recommendation is that you find material written prior to 1923.
All right, you are going to need to go pick up two pieces of
free software.
The first is the ever versatile OpenOffice program. This program
does everything that big word processing and office-style
program does. But, it's free! (Unless you buy the CD version of
it and then you will just be paying shipping and handling.)
If you are dial-up downloading, it will take a while, so make
sure that you have the time to tie up your line, and make sure
that you don't have any automatic disconnects on when you are
downloading it. It's about 65 megs, so it is a rather huge
program.
http://www.openoffice.org/
There are video tutorials about using this tool, including
converting works into a PDF. But, since you already have
EasyPDF, (and if you don't then you are reading this as an
article and need to contact us on getting a copy of it,) we are
always able to be contacted about that at:
mailtofoundsecrets@foundsecrets.com/?subject=EasyPDF-Material
however, if you are interested in these, we have them available
and you can always drop a line to us about them:
mailto:foundsecrets@foundsecrets.com/?subject=Open-Office-Video-T
utorials
But, since you already have EasyPDF, you already know how to
create a PDF and where to locate what we consider the best
"free" PDF creation tool. Now, the reason for the quotes is
because there is a pop-up everytime you use it, and if you want
to get rid of the pop-up, and also use it for "commercial"
purposes, then you should purchase it. When compared to the
price tag of the Adobe