How to Publish A Public Domain

Publishing a public domain can be a great opportunity to make money on Amazon. However, before you jump right in you'll want to ensure you fully understand Amazon's rules. So, check out this video to learn more and see what exactly you need to do when publishing a public domain.

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[BillOConnor_Perth]

Dave Thank you, this is why I have bought every one of your products and now will finally buy Atticus and write a book. Your support, information and training are unbelievable, thank you again.

[EricDrysdale-dq]

Full marks Dave. Most valuable and details all the key points. You deserve your success, You are an excellent "asset and source" to refer to. Keep well, Eric.

[PsykeonOfficial]

You're a gold mine, chief 🙏Thanks for your work

[liudmilabozzi]

Hi Dave, thanks for the content! One question - when you publish, can you pick the option I own the copyright, if the book includes more than 10 illustrations, author biography and glossary of words? Thanks!

[slothdreamsbooks]

Public domain works are amazing sellers. One of my top sellers is a famous poets compilation poetry book. One of my top sellers out of my 200 books I’ve written.

[lauraduffy]

Hi Dave thanks for this video. I think it would fun to redesign some wonderful classics. How would the interiors be accessed though?

[rosinaiglesias-traductoral]

As a literary translator, this is incredible valuable to me! Thank you very much.

[davidstewart]

Thanks Dave, I am working on a piece of public doman work and this has been most helpful.

[EmilynWood]

Thank you so much for making a video about this. So few people let out information about this stuff.

[TrailsNetCom]

Thanks Dave. What if somebody completely revamps a public domain book and creates something like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?" Would they still need to check the "This is a public domain book" in the KDP publishing process?

[yeshuachristdrivenandinspi]

Hello, I am so glad that I ran across your video. I recently found out that the King James Bible is now Public Domain and has no copywrite I want to create and write song lyrics from it. I wanted to know if I were allowed to do that? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Gina]

I’m scared to publish anything at all for months as KDP rules have gone haywire this year, unclear, misleading and inconsistent and bots are seemingly out of control

[mahaliaholmes]

What about modern retelling of a pd. I have just written a book based on Christmas story “ The Stuffed Elephant “ the new version holds the main foundation of the story but has additional story lines added and changed characters and scenes. It has a different title as well as illustration s.I have included a note from the author acknowledging the original story and author why and how this book has been created. So does this still fall in the public domain category or is it a new publication with acknowledgment

[bethannekim]

You say that you can only publish a book that has been annotated or changed. From my reading, you can also publish one that is completely UNchanged - provided you are the first one to publish it on Amazon. So my understanding is that you wouldn't be able to publish "Pollyanna" without annotation or something, because it's already so widely available, but you could publish "The Chesson Family Diaries from 1896" since it isn't already available on Amazon (what with it not existing and all).

Am I correct in that reading?

[stevenpoke]

If you create a book that is a compilation of public domain material combined together from different books (and therefore you create a unique, never previously published book) do you still declare this as a public domain book at the kdp upload stage?

[kevinpotter]

Regarding adding illustrations, if hiring an artist is permissible does that also mean that using stock art would be acceptable? (As long as your license is adequate, of course)

[MCristinaSFlynn]

Can you add public domain photos to a public domain book instead of illustrations?

[sohanurrahman]

Do I need to write (illustrations & annotations) in the title section beside the name of my book?

[NS-mpcz]

When publishing to KDP, would the “author name” field be your regular pen name or the original author’s name?

[candid]

KDP is so iffy, i'm scared to publish those.