Niche Hunter Volume One - How To Find Wildly Profitable Niche Markets For Your Public Domain Products…

When selling a product, a lot of people make the mistake of developing their product first, and then trying to find a market for it. The process should really be reversed. Find a market first that spends money, then find out what they want and give it to them.

Fortunately, there are a lot of places online where you can do your market research for free. They’ve done most of the work for you already. You just need to know where to go and what to do to connect all the dots.

Niche Hunter Volume One show you how to get the answers you need to these important questions when considering a niche market:

1. Do you have an interest or passion for the niche? If not, do you think you can develop one? Or will you get bored with it quickly?
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2. Are other people passionate about your niche? If not, do they have a desperate problem they want to solve?
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3. Is the market big enough, but not so big you’ll have too much competition when you’re just starting out?
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4. Do the people in this niche spend money?
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5. What products are being successfully sold right now to this niche? Can you sell something similar? Can you improve it, give them something they want that all other products of their kind are currently lacking?
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6. What are these existing products in your target niche being sold for? Could you be profitable selling a similarly priced item? Or are your potential competitors selling cheap on the front so they can upsell, cross sell, or make their money on the back-end?

In Niche Hunter Volume One, you’ll learn tricks for finding and evaluating potentially profitable niches that you can use public domain material to create products for.

Click Here To Download Your Free Copy of Niche Hunter Volume One…

How To Use Copyright-FREE Public Domain Content To Create Your Own Information Publishing Empire…

We’ve just released a new seven part ecourse…

The “Public Domain Crash Course” Seven Part eCourse is the perfect primer to get you started learning how to plunder the Public Domain and get you on the fast track to creating your own new products using copyright-free material!

Every day for the next seven days starting today, you’ll receive a valuable new lesson regarding “How to use copyright-free public domain content to create your own information publishing empire”…

The lessons are delivered via email. Here’s what you’ll find in your inbox over the next seven days…

• Lesson One - What is the public domain and how can it help me create products at lightning speed?
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• Lesson Two - what types of public domain material are available for me to choose from?
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• Lesson Three - What else can you do with public domain information to make money?
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• Lesson Four - The right tools for public domain republishing
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• Lesson Five - How to use public domain material to create your own physical books
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• Lesson Six - How to use public domain material to create profitable audio products
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• Lesson Seven - Let’s get physical with the public domain - how to create a wide variety of products using public domain material

Click Here To Begin Getting Your Lessons Right Away…

The Amazon Kindle / Public Domain Connection Part Four - Standing Out In A Sea of Kindle Competition…

How To Leverage Amazon’s Digital Text Platform To Create Products For Kindle Users And Drive More Traffic Back To Your Websites, Grow Your Lists, and Create A New Source of Supplemental Income For Your Information Publishing Business…

Strategies For Making Your Products Stand Out In A Sea of Kindle Competitors…

With over 190,000 other books currently catalogued in the Kindle store, how can you make your books stand out in the crowd?

Whether you’re using leverage method 1 or leverage method 2 as described in Part 3 of this series there are several things you can do to give yourself an advantage when selling your ebooks in the Kindle store.

You’ve got 2 weapons at your disposal…

1) You absolutely MUST maintain some form of exclusivity.

Trying to sell the exact same book as everybody else is a real quick way to get your book into the 99 cent bargain bin.

Unfortunately, a lot of Kindle publishers know about sites like Project Gutenberg and they also know that the vast majority of books on Gutenberg are copyright-free so you’ll find a lot of stuff taken from there and republished on Kindle.

Consequently, you’ll find many publishers competing with each other trying to sell copies of the exact same book – for obvious reasons that’s not a position you want to find yourself in.

If you are leveraging method 1 (generating new revenue streams by only selling books made with content that you wouldn’t be monetizing by other means anyway) then you would really be shooting yourself in the foot as far as price is concerned.

In order to demand the best possible price for your book (remember, you only get 35% so the higher the better) you really need to be the only one selling that particular book.

Try to stick with titles that no one else is using.

Check the Kindle store listings first and search for the title of your book –http://amazon.com/kindlestore

Try to avoid the same content that others are using.

Public domain stuff from the years 1923-63 works great for this because most of the well-known online public domain repositories like Project Gutenberg avoid this golden 40 year span like the plague even though there are millions of public domain works from that timeframe.

They avoid this timeframe simply because it takes more effort to perform copyright renewal searches to clear the works and if they miss a renewal and mistakenly use something that is still protected, they could get sued – therefore the overall commitment of time and resources (not to mention the risk) is much, much greater.

This is great news for you and I as info publishers because it means that we have a HUGE pool of public domain books to pull from that should have absolutely zero competition in the Kindle store simply because most of these other publishers are either too lazy or too ignorant to pursue public domain works from this timeframe – but we know better don’t we?

If you are going to use common books such as works off of Gutenberg, you can make your product standout by designing unique cover images for it (these are displayed with the listings just like ebay auctions), and making sure that you are doing everything you can with your title and description.

You can also use marketing tactics that you are already employing elsewhere - offer a free download of some sort with the purchase of the book and mention this in the description.

There are no rules that I am aware of that disallow you from this.

Example: You could take a public domain book from Gutenberg and offer a free mp3 audio download of the book with purchase. Upload the audio book onto your website and provide the download URL inside the book.

This will help to make your book stand out from the others. It takes nothing to put this together and it doesn’t cost you a penny if you take the time to record the audio yourself.

Just make sure that you provide a nice, easy short URL because your customer will most likely have to use a PC to download it so they’ll be entering the URL into a browser.

HINT: Force your customers to opt-in to get the free download so that you can capture their contact info.

2) Put your marketing and copywriting knowledge to good use…

In order to make your Kindle products really stand out you can put your marketing and copywriting skills into play. This is something that a most Kindle publishers have no clue about.

Here’s a few pointers for making your ebooks stand out…

Title – they actually give you a very generous amount of room in the title field for your book, 128 characters. Use this to your advantage by using powerful benefit-driven keywords at every opportunity.

You should have enough room to insert the actual title of your book followed by these keywords. Think of this as a headline.

This is one of the first things (along with the cover image) that perspective buyers will see so make it count. It’s every bit as important as your auction title on eBay or your headline in a Google Adwords ad.

Cover Image – no explanation should be needed here – you already know how important this is. A really nice, vivid cover image will draw eyes off of competing products and on to yours.

Description – I don’t know yet exactly how many characters you are allowed to fit in this field but I can tell you one thing – it’s a lot! Your description is where you can really let your copywriting skills shine.

You can’t do any real formatting like bolding, italicizing, or underlining but there are more basic ways to draw attention to the various parts of your text if you use a little creativity – asterisks, clever uses of the right and left arrow symbols, tildes, hyphens, and underscores are useful for drawing attention to certain aspects of your copy when used correctly.

Think of this area as a mini sales letter.

Use strong benefit-driven bullet points to describe your product. Most lazy publishers use this field to provide a really quick summary of what the book is about.

You can go way beyond this and actually compose a full blown sales letter.

Tell your prospects why they need your book and what problem it will help them solve. This is also the part where you would discuss any bonuses that you are including with the purchase of your book.

TIP: Always, always place your bonus download URL at the end of your book.

The Kindle store now let’s shoppers download a preview of the first 10% of your book so if you’ve got the download link on the first page or anywhere within that first ten percent, you’ve just lost an edge (unless you really don’t care whether or not they ultimately buy your Kindle book because you were just trying to get them back to your site and collect their info anyway! In that case stick the URL right in the front).

Author – most publishers overlook this field but there is a lot of power here.

You can use this field for branding yourself (or whoever wrote the book) as an expert and establish instant credibility with Kindle store shoppers.

You could follow up the name of the author with some sort of impressive tag line or title.

Remember, you’re competing with a lot of other books on the same or similar topics so credibility counts.

Would you rather buy a dog book by a guy named Bob Smith or a dog book by A. BARTON, B.S., D.V.M., Veterinary Surgeon or perhaps Barbara Callahan – The Dog Whisperer? See what I mean?

Category – This one’s a no brainer but I’ll say it anyway – make sure you place your books in the right category, ok?

That may seem silly to say but if you don’t it will be very unlikely that interested shoppers will ever find your book as I believe that the majority of shoppers in the Kindle store find what they need by browsing by category.

Next in Part Five of this series, I’ll show you how easy it is to get setup with your own Kindle Store account so that you can get started selling …

In the mean time if you like to learn more about this “Kindle” thing and more importantly how you can use it to earn a nice supplemental income, go check out this 4 minute and 34 second video to see exactly how my buddy James Jones is earning a nice residual monthly income selling Kindle books with:

• no list
• no website
• no traffic
• just a few minutes of effort (literally just 15 minutes a day)…

The Amazon Kindle / Public Domain Connection Part Three - Enhancing Your Information Publishing Business…

How To Leverage Amazon’s Digital Text Platform To Create Products For Kindle Users And Drive More Traffic Back To Your Websites, Grow Your Lists, and Create A New Source of Supplemental Income For Your Information Publishing Business…

Two Ways To Leverage Amazon’s Kindle Store To Enhance Your Information Publishing Business…

I know what you’re thinking…

If I’m only making 35% of the list price and Amazon keeps the other 65% why would I want to waste any time publishing my stuff for Kindle users?

It’s certainly much more profitable to sell my info products directly from my own websites and keep 100% of the profits, right?

If you are already selling books in print on Amazon, then you are already used to giving a huge chunk of your sales dollars away so repositioning your print products for use in a digital market and only getting 35% probably isn’t that much of a stretch for you but what about the rest of us?

When you’re used to having absolute control over the profit margins on your products it can take a little bit to get used to giving up 65% of your books final sales price with no other benefit (such as giving a 65% commission to your affiliates for sales you had to make no real effort to achieve and growing your customer list at the same time).

However there are two very distinct ways to look at this when contemplating how you can leverage Amazon’s Kindle user base to enhance your info publishing business…

1. Generate a new revenue stream by only selling books made with content that you wouldn’t be monetizing by other means anyway.
   
   You could sell ebooks to generate additional revenue for your business that contain content that you are not using elsewhere in any of your core, higher-ticket info products.

   It makes no sense to take a ebook that you are selling successfully in your marketplace for $27.00 and list it in the Kindle store for $9.97 (the average best seller price).

   You can list the price for your products all the way up to $200.00 but I think you’d be hard pressed to get the same amount of money for your info products in the Kindle store that you would from selling the product from a website that caters to a specific niche – remember this is much more general audience.

   The idea here is that if you have public domain or PLR content laying around that you’re not going to do anything with anyway, then this could be a good way to monetize that content in some way.

   Fiction books, biographies, and books on less popular topics would be a great example of this – remember, it doesn’t cost you a penny to publish an ebook and get it listed in Amazon’s Kindle store so you’ve got nothing to lose if it tanks.

   I never sell fiction books from any of my websites but I am definitely considering list some for Kindle users – Kindle users love fiction!
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2. COVERT STRATEGY – Use the Amazon Kindle store to sell “special reports” and other products that lead back to your “meat and potato” products or lead capture mechanisms.This is by far my most highly recommended usage of Kindle.You can use public domain or private label rights material to create “special reports” that you can sell on Kindle for the sole purpose of getting traffic back to your main websites and products.

   In this way, you’d be leveraging the Kindle store as a means of promotion rather than profit. In this case you would want to make these “special reports” as inexpensive as possible to get them into the hands of as many people as possible.

   The idea would be not be necessarily to make money off of the Kindle book itself but rather to drive traffic back to your site so that you can “pitch” them on your other “real” high-profit information products.

   Now you can market your real products to these prospects on the back-end without Amazon even knowing about it (or caring for that matter).

   You see, that’s one of the things that has always bugged me about selling physical books (and now Kindle books) on websites like Amazon – when a purchase is made, they don’t pass along the customer’s information to you, you can’t add that person into your sales funnel because you have no idea who they are and you can’t follow up.

   Most of the more marketing-savvy authors that have print books published (even when they’re sitting on the shelves of Barnes & Noble) have some sort of mechanism in place within the actual print book that leads the reader back to a website with the promise of collecting some free goodies.

   And of course they have to provide contact info to get these goodies!

   So now the author is benefiting way beyond his cut of whatever he or she gets on sales of the print book – now they are growing they’re own private list of customers that have already indicated their interest in the subject by the purchase of the book and the author can market products to that list for much higher profits.Some publishers allow this and some don’t but you would be surprised how little money an author of a print book actually makes off of sales of these books (those that are with major publishing companies anyway).

   The smart authors use printed books as nothing more than bound and printed lead capture mechanisms – and you can use the same strategy with books that you sell to Kindle users!

   Consider selling a special report that contains a link back to a special page on your website where they can download a free bonus like another special report, an MP3 audio, or even a video.

   Make them have to opt-in for the free bonus and now you’re using this traffic to build a pre-qualified list.

One more thing to think about - there are already several magazines and newspapers publishing “Kindle” editions and charging a subscription fee - do you have an online niche newsletter that you could sell a “Kindle” edition subscription too? You could even sell subscriptions to your blog on Kindle.

Even if the content is otherwise free from your actual website, you could justify your “Kindle” edition subscription fee by explaining that it takes you considerable time and effort to prepare the material for use on a Kindle reader. And, if they don’t subscribe because they find out that they can get your content free just by coming to your site then so what? Either way, you’ve exposed a new prospect to your website and products!

Next in Part Four of this series, we’ll discuss strategies for making sure that your Kindle products stand out above the crowd…

In the mean time if you like to learn more about this “Kindle” thing and more importantly how you can use it to earn a nice supplemental income, go check out this 4 minute and 34 second video to see exactly how my buddy James Jones is earning a nice residual monthly income selling Kindle books with:

• no list
• no website
• no traffic
• just a few minutes of effort (literally just 15 minutes a day)…

Quick and Simple Public Domain Product Ideas For Thanksgiving!

Pirates of the Public Domain Issue #4 Is Hot Off The Presses!

Dear Reader,

Welcome aboard the fourth issue of “Pirates of the Public Domain Magazine”, the only digital magazine exploring ingeniously creative and outrageously lucrative ways to profit from the public domain! This magazine is dedicated to exploring unique and little known ways to repackage and republish public domain material for fun and profit.

In this fourth issue, we will be discussing unique product ideas based around a Thanksgiving holiday theme (or as we call it around my house, “Turkey Day”). The holidays are always a great time for product sales and you’ll find that with a little creativity and imagination creating unique Thanksgiving themed products is a snap when you can pull all of the material that you need from the public domain.

Thanksgiving is a time of food, family, friends, and giving thanks for all of the blessings that we have received over the past year and you can easily create special products that reflect these feelings of warmth, joy, and nostalgia by borrowing material from the past.

Hundreds of thousands of public domain books, magazine articles, photographs, postcards, greeting cards and more have be produced that capture the magic of the holiday that is Thanksgiving – and you can use this material in the creation of your own new products that will serve to preserve and enhance the spirit of the special holiday season.

Traditionally, Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States and Canada, but no matter where on the globe you live you should find something in this month’s issue that will spark new ideas for products that you can create using copyright-free public domain material.

Holiday inspired products in general not only sell well but are also extremely fun to create! There is so much holiday related material out there to choose from in the public domain that your choices are almost endless and you should have no problem coming up with the raw material to create some really great, unique holiday themed products.

For instance, there are millions of U.S. published magazines in the public domain. Many of these magazines produced content that was family-oriented, kid friendly, and focused on the simpler things in life like good food, good times, and just the little things that help us live a more enjoyable life.

And you know what? Every November, most of these magazines produced a Thanksgiving inspired issue chock full of quality content that you can use – recipes of all sorts for turkey dishes, pumpkin pies, dressings, etc. – ideas for making the most of the holiday season, all kinds of great stuff!

In fact, the cover for this months issue of “Pirates of the Public Domain” magazine was borrowed from the November 22nd 1919 issue of a public domain magazine called “Leslie’s Weekly”.

Let the Thanksgiving holiday inspire you to create new family-oriented products and you’ll find the public domain to be a huge resource of great Thanksgiving related material!

From our families to yours, we wish you a warm and joyful Thanksgiving holiday!

Warmly,

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Editors and Contributors, “Pirates of the Public Domain Magazine”

Click Here To Download “Pirates of the Public Domain” Magazine Issue #4 Now!

The Amazon Kindle / Public Domain Connection Part Two - From A Publisher’s Prospective…

How To Leverage Amazon’s Digital Text Platform To Create Products For Kindle Users And Drive More Traffic Back To Your Websites, Grow Your Lists, and Create A New Source of Supplemental Income For Your Information Publishing Business…

From A Publisher’s Prospective…

Amazon has been remarkably tight-lipped about revealing just how many Kindles have been sold to date as well as what the sales figures are for Kindle books being purchased every month.

As far as the number of actual Kindle units sold, I’ve seen estimates all across the board but most sources seem to place the number of Kindle users somewhere between 50,000 to 100,000 and growing.

As far as sales figures for Kindle books, no one but Amazon knows for sure but Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, commented at this year’s BookExpo America annual trade show that Kindle ebook downloads already account for 6% of Amazon’s unit sales of “books that are available in both paper and electronic formats”. (Source: New York Times, June 2, 2008, “Electronic Device Stirs Unease at Book Fair”)

You can bet that 6% of anything at Amazon is a significant amount but until Amazon decides to release the actual sales figures for the Kindle units and Kindle ebooks sold any estimate as to just how big this market actually is would be sheer speculation.

Now, here’s the important part and the whole point of this report – as an information publisher you can gain direct access to this market of Kindle users through a special platform that Amazon has put together called the Digital Text Platform.

The Digital Text Platform is a simple online publishing system designed to allow you to upload your digital content to Amazon for sale in the Kindle store.

It’s free to publish your digital content on Amazon’s Digital Text Platform and offer it for sale to Kindle users so there is no risk on your part. Why not experiment and see what happens? I’ve talked to a handful of Kindle content publishers now who were pleasantly surprised at how well some of their Kindle titles have been selling.

Here’s a few quick facts regarding publishing with the Digital Text Platform and selling in Amazon’s Kindle store…

• At present only U.S. based publishers can sell digital products to Kindle users. Surely, this will change soon as Amazon expands it’s Kindle user base so you’re best off learning about this program now so you’ll be ahead of the curve when it does.
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• Utilizing the Digital Text Platform requires no special skills whatsoever. If you can copy and paste stuff that’s pretty much the only skill you need.
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• You specify the list price of your titles which can be anywhere from $0.99 to $200.00 USD.
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• As outlined in the DTP’s Terms and Conditions you receive a set percentage of your list price when your product sells. At the moment that set percentage is 35%. I know this doesn’t sound like much but a little later we’ll discuss why this isn’t such a bad thing if you are leveraging this service correctly.
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• You can upload documents in the following formats: HTML, plain text (.txt), Microsoft Word (.doc), and Adobe Reader (.pdf). When you upload your documents, the Digital Text Platform converts them into Kindle format automatically – Amazon’s DTP support team recommends uploading in HTML format for the best conversion results.
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• Yes, you can include images in your documents. The Kindle handles images extremely well as long as you follow the image guidelines that the Amazon DTP support team suggests. See online help for more info.
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• It probably goes without saying that you can only publish content for which you own the electronic publishing rights. Public Domain and Private Label Rights products are perfect for this as well as your own original content.
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• You get paid automatically as long as your account has a balance of $10.00 or more “approximately sixty days following the end of the calendar month during which applicable sales of your content occur”. Seem like a long time to wait for your money? I agree but shortly, we will discuss some strategies for using this thing that will probably make it to where you don’t even care if you get paid at all!
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• Funds will be distributed to you by Electronic Funds Transfer to a U.S. bank account. Again with that U.S. bank account thing – hang in there, my understanding is that Amazon is looking at their options for opening this program up to the rest of the world.
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• Once “published”, your content will appear for sale in the Kindle store approximately 24-72 hours later but I’ve had reports of it taking much less time than that.
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• An ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is not required to publish content with Digital Text Platform

So What Makes The Kindle Store A Worthwhile Place To Market My Digital Products?

4 reasons why Kindle users are a really good group of people to sell information to…

1. Already a proven buying market - Kindles are pricey at $359.00 so these people that are buying these things have disposable income. They buy these and then of course they’re trolling the Kindle store constantly for new books to purchase.
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2. Already a market that’s completely comfortable and enthusiastic about digital products - they are already very familiar and comfortable with the concept of “ebooks” and they are comfortable reading things on a digital screen.
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3. They are comfortable with technology – Kindle users aren’t afraid of technology or they wouldn’t be such avid fans of these things in the first place.
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4. They aren’t afraid to spend money online – this is proven over and over again just by the fact that every product for the Kindle is purchased online.

All four of these factors make Kindle users ideal candidates for selling digital products to especially when using Kindle products as bait to get traffic back to your higher profit websites and products. We’ll cover that subject soon in Part 3 of this series.

Consider this - there’s over 85 million books in the public domain. You could very easily use these books to create thousands of books for your Kindle book store. The opportunity is huge so be sure to check out the next part of this series if you’d like to learn more about how to sell public domain books on Amazon for profit.

In the mean time if you like to learn more about this “Kindle” thing and more importantly how you can use it to earn a nice supplemental income, go check out this 4 minute and 34 second video to see exactly how my buddy James Jones is earning a nice residual monthly income selling Kindle books with:

• no list
• no website
• no traffic
• just a few minutes of effort (literally just 15 minutes a day)…

The Amazon Kindle / Public Domain Connection Part One - What The Heck Is A “Kindle”?

How To Leverage Amazon’s Digital Text Platform To Create Products For Kindle Users And Drive More Traffic Back To Your Websites, Grow Your Lists, and Create A New Source of Supplemental Income For Your Information Publishing Business…

“What the heck is a “Kindle”?

Have you ever heard of the “Kindle”?

The Kindle is Amazon’s “revolutionary new wireless reading device” that lets you read what you want, anywhere, anytime. At it’s core, it’s a really cool electronic device that let’s you read ebooks without having to sit in front of your computer screen straining your eyes. With expandable storage capacity, the Kindle will let you instantly download, store, and read hundreds of ebooks.

It’s essentially an electronic book in itself!

One of  the most impressive features of this device is it’s display – it’s uses “electronic paper” technology that displays digital books on a sharp, hi-res screen simulating real paper. It’s very easy on the eyes unlike many of the ebook reading devices have come before it.

It’s extremely light weight (10.3 ounces) making it much lighter (and thinner) than the average paperback book. This thing is amazing – based on previous unimpressive attempts I have seen by other companies over the past few years I really had never had an interest in a device like this…until now!

The Kindle is definitely on my Christmas List this year!

You can download tons of books to this thing and throw it in your backpack, suitcase, or purse and take it with you anywhere.

You can read more about the Kindle and watch a few videos explaining more about the amazing capabilities of this thing at the following link…

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=dp_kinw_ae_1

Here’s just a few of the primary benefits that Kindle users are currently enjoying…(Source: Amazon.com)

• Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.
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• Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing.
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• Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.
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• Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
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• More than 130,000 books available, including more than 98 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers.
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• New York Times® Best Sellers and New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
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• Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.
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• Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
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• Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
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• More than 300 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN’s Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post—all updated wirelessly throughout the day.
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• Lighter and thinner than a typical paperback; weighs only 10.3 ounces.
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• Holds over 200 titles.
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• Long battery life. Leave wireless on and recharge approximately every other day. Turn wireless off and read for a week or more before recharging. Fully recharges in 2 hours.
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• Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones—so you never have to locate a hotspot.
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• No monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments—we take care of the wireless delivery so you can simply click, buy, and read.
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• Includes free wireless access to the planet’s most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org.
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• Email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to Kindle for easy on-the-go viewing.

The selection of titles in the Kindle store continues to grow daily as new digital books, magazines, newspapers, and even blogs are being added.

You can browse the existing inventory of titles available for the Kindle at this link - http://www.amazon.com/kindlestore

At the time of this writing there are…

Kindle Books (191,250)
Kindle Newspapers (26)
Kindle Blogs (1004)
Kindle Magazines & Journals (18)

That’s a lot of books!

How would you like to be the one selling those books?

And…what if you could very easily build up a whole Kindle product line using selections from the millions of public domain books right at your finger tips?

Interested? Me too!

Now you know a little about what a Kindle is and what is does. In Part Two of this series we’ll talk a little about the specifics of how you can use this service from a publisher’s prospective (and make some money!).

In the mean time if you like to learn more about this “Kindle” thing and more importantly how you can use it to earn a nice supplemental income, go check out this 4 minute and 34 second video to see exactly how my buddy James Jones is earning a nice residual monthly income selling Kindle books with:

• no list
• no website
• no traffic
• just a few minutes of effort (literally just 15 minutes a day)…

Co-Author A New Book With Debra & Logan!

Co-Author A New Book With Debra & Logan!

How would you like to write a book with us and get full credit as a co-author?

Debra had a wonderful idea today and I think we should do it!

Here’s the deal - we want to co-author a new ebook with you tentatively titled, “Public Domain Product Ideas”.

The book will be chock full of fun and profitable ideas for using public domain material for product creation.

Do you have an idea that you would like to share about a specific way to use public domain books, magazines, images, etc., to create a product? Or a specific idea about how to profit from the public domain? Share it with us and we’ll include it in this new book!

All you have to do is submit to us as much of the following as you are comfortable with…(everything is optional and you can include as little or as much of this as you wish)

1. Your idea (no matter how brief), a brief write-up or article describing your idea in detail would be best but you are free to write as little or as much as you would like. It doesn’t even have to be a totally unique or new idea, just something with your special “spin” on it. This can be a general idea about how to create certain products using a certain type of public domain material or it could even be about how to use public domain content to serve a specific niche - it’s your call!
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2. A picture or pictures to help illustrate your idea. This could be a picture of the actual product you created or anything that would be useful in helping explain your idea.
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3. A picture of yourself to include with your entry in the book. A head shot is preferred.
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4. Your name as you would like it presented in the book (anonymous is ok if preferred).
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5. Your geographic location. Ex: Atlanta, GA. This is totally optional.
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6. Your website address so that we can include a link back to your website.
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7. Your permission to reprint everything you have submitted in this new ebook and use your submissions in our marketing material.

With your participation, we feel that together we could create an really fun and interesting new ebook that we can all be very proud of. It’ll be a blast!

So what’s in it for you?

1. Your name will be listed on the cover (to be designed) as a co-author along with ours!
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2. You’ll get to brag about co-authoring a book - “Hey, check out this book I just wrote with Deb and Logan” ; )
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3. You’ll get more exposure to your websites and products due to the links we will include in the book (as long as you submitted them).
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4. You’ll have full distribution rights to the final book so that you can give it away or distribute it any way you wish as long as you do not modify it in any way.
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5. If you are a Thought Rocket Publishing Affiliate, (sign up here) you’ll have access to a brandable version of the book in which you can include your affiliate links to our products (our ads will be placed in the back of the book) and potentially earn commissions from the sale of our products.

A Dirt-Simple Six Step Formula…For Public Domain Success!

Just released - a brand new Special Report…

A Dirt-Simple Six Step Formula…For Public Domain Success!

Wouldn’t we all like to have a handbook on how to be successful?

Have you ever wished there was a simple formula you could follow for creating online success?

Well, we’re totally with you on that… and we’ve found one way that can help you achieve that success. It’s a little known secret that often gets overlooked. What is it?

Using Public Domain Content to quickly create your own products!

But how do you use Public Domain content for profit? What benefit is it to your potential customers? How would you like to have a simple six-step formula for creating profits for your business just by using public domain content? Yes, you read that right. A Simple Six-Step Formula.

In our book, “The Public Domain Success Formula” (Book #3 in the Public Domain Treasure Hunter’s Kit), we lay out in detail a super-simple success formula that we use in our own online businesses every day for ensuring the success of our public domain projects.

In this brief special report, “A Dirt-Simple Six Step Formula For Public Domain Success”, we will be sharing the bare basics of this formula with you so that you can begin using it in your own business right away.

Here’s a breakdown of six steps in their most basic form:

1. Find a good, active niche or market.
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2. Locate good, quality Public Domain material to use in creating a product for that niche.
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3. Verify that the material you intend on using is indeed in the public domain.
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4. Convert the public domain material into an editable format.
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5. Create your product using the public domain material you have found
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6. Sell your product

By just using this simple six step strategy - one by one - you’ll have created a product from public domain content you can profit from.

This brand new special report is included on the download page along with all current and back issues of “Pirates of the Public Domain Magazine”. Grab your copy now!

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Cashing In On Vibrantly Beautiful Public Domain Vegetable And Fruit Crate Label Art!

Pirates of the Public Domain Issue #3 Is Hot Off The Presses!

Dear Reader,

Welcome aboard the third issue of “Pirates of the Public Domain Magazine”, the only digital magazine exploring ingeniously creative and outrageously lucrative ways to profit from the public domain! This magazine is dedicated to exploring unique and little known ways to repackage and republish public domain material for fun and profit.

In this third issue, we will be discussing how to profit from a unique form of American public domain folk-art - late 19th and early 20th century fruit and vegetable crate labels!

As the agribusiness industry boomed with the introduction of the cross-country railroad system, it quickly became apparent to the nation’s produce growers that in order to stand out among strong competition in the marketplace, gain brand recognition and more sales, they would have to be clever and inventive with the packaging of their fruits and vegetables. They began using the only advertising space they had - the flat ends of the wooden crates the produce was being shipped in! By gluing paper labels on to the ends of the crates, growers now had a way to advertise their brand and draw attention to their produce.

As produce growers and packing houses in the late 19th century and early 20th century quickly discovered, the more attractive and appealing the artwork on their crate labels was, the more successfully the produce sold. The crate label became the only marketing weapon that a produce grower had - and it worked extremely well.

It worked so well in fact, that every fruit and vegetable grower in the country began using their own unique labels in order in to grab attention. With every new season, growers raced to outdo each other by producing crate labels with the most wonderful, eye-catching artwork.

These labels often featured the most amazingly beautiful images featuring stunningly glorious color schemes with rich hues and striking lettering. Images of happy children, lovely women, fanciful landscapes, gorgeous scenery, all manner of birds and animals, and much more often graced the labels of produce crates.

Fueling the success of this new found form of “advertising” art was another booming early 20th century industry - the Lithographic printing industry. With many of Southern California’s finest printing houses employing talented immigrant artists having just landed on American soil filled with enthusiasm and optimism over the promise of a better life in the U.S., the artwork being produced by these printing house was often times nothing short of breath-taking.

This amazing artwork, when combined with the Lithographic printing process, a printing process that provided a much richer and broader color spectrum than any printing process before it, resulted in some of the most vibrantly beautiful folk-art to ever be produced in America.

Vintage crate labels provide such a wonderful bounty of rich and imaginative imagery and were designed specifically to appeal to one’s senses by conveying all the wonderful qualities of fresh produce - health, longevity, vitality and flavor! Meant to catch the eye of passing shoppers in neighborhood markets and busy wholesale buyers in the produce auction markets, the artwork on these crate labels is nothing short of incredible.

There wasn’t a single subject left unexplored - you name it, you can probably find a crate label featuring it in dazzling fashion.

These wonderfully colorful and eye-catching labels were glued onto wooden produce crates and shipped all over the country for roughly 70 years.

Now, here’s the really cool thing for us as product creators, information publishers, and seekers of copyright-free images for our blogs and other products - the vast majority of these crate labels are in the public domain and are thus free for us to reproduce in any way we choose!

This is true because…

1. Millions of crate labels were produced in the U.S. before 1923 which automatically puts them in the public domain (publication occurred the moment they were used in public)
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2. Millions more of these crate labels (and perhaps the best ones) were produced between 1923 and the mid 1950’s meaning that had they have been registered with the U.S. Copyright Office in the first place (unlikely), they would have had to of had their copyrights renewed 28 years later in order to retain that copyright protection. Again, not likely.
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3. These labels were created by anonymous artists working in printing houses under work-for-hire arrangements which means that the printing houses would have retained the copyrights to the artwork. In the vast majority of cases when examining these labels, you’ll find no artist name, no indication of which printing house produced the label, and no copyright notice whatsoever, conditions which were required to obtain copyright protection in the timeframe in which these labels were produced.

So, there are MILLIONS of these things in the public domain that you can literally do anything you want with including but not in anyway limited to…

• using the images extracted from crate label artwork on your blogs and in your info product cover images
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• using the images as entirely new artwork such as framed prints and posters for decorative purposes
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• reproducing the crate labels as is and selling on eBay or at antique and craft shows as crate label art reproductions
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• reproducing the crate labels as entirely new physical products like calendars, clothing, wallpaper, or anything else you could possibly imagine!

There are so many profitable possibilities with public domain crate label art. In this issue of Pirates of the Public Domain Magazine, you’ll learn what crate label art is, how it came to be, why it’s so important, and most importantly how you can use it for fun and profit.

Read on and profit my friend!

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Editors and Contributors, “Pirates of the Public Domain Magazine”

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