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Profitting from Republishing Public Domain Content

First, Some Public Domain 101 Before the printing press in the 1400′s, documents were largely copied by way of manual effort – painstakingly laborious and error-prone hand copying. Along comes the printing press and exact duplicates of works could be relatively easily created and widely distributed.  In the 15th and 16th centuries, the church and [...]

How to Build a Niche Backgrounds Website Fast (and Make Money)

This all started at midnight in my hotel room at the Taj Krishna in Hyderabad. With a 13.5 hour time difference from Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, midnight in my hotel room was about the time that Steve Jobs was making the latest announcement from Apple about the glorious iPad. I hadn’t really prepared [...]