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When you are shopping for antiques, the older it is, the more valuable it usually is. However, when you are searching for public domain works, it isn’t necessarily how old it is that adds value to it. How difficult the work is to find or obtain adds value!

You’ve heard ‘if it was easy, everybody would be doing it.’ Well, the same applies to public domain works – if it was easy to find, everybody would have it, and it wouldn’t be worth much. For this reason, you should make it a point to seek out that which isn’t easily obtainable if you want to profit.

This doesn’t mean that you can’t profit from public domain works that are easy to find – it just means that you will profit more from that which is hard to find. Everybody knows that we all want and are willing to pay well for those things which we cannot easily get!

Think of original art pieces, such as the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is in the public domain, and there are many, many copies of it. But the original Mona Lisa – the Mona Lisa that was painted in the 16th century by Leonardo da Vinci, on the canvas that he painted it on, with the oil paints that he painted with, has no monetary value assigned to it. It is priceless – but it resides in a room in the Louvre in Paris that cost 7.5 million dollars to build. People pay just to view the Mona Lisa – and many travel around the world to see it.

While the work that you find probably won’t require a 7.5 million dollar room of its own, you do want to seek out public domain works that either are worth something today, or can be made to be worth something. Depending on what you are hoping to accomplish, it may take quite a bit of research, time, and effort on your part – but it will be well worth it in the end!

Before you start your search for public domain works that you can use to create products, you need to have a clear objective in mind. In other words, just knowing that you want to use a public domain work to create your own product isn’t enough. You need to know what type of work it is that you want to create, and what public domain work will fill your need.

It is never a good idea to go into anything blindly. You will of course want to conduct market research, just as you would with any other type of product that you wanted to create. Is there a market for your idea?

A good way to find out if there is a market is to go to a search engine and type in keywords that would be used to search for your potential product. Pay close attention to the sponsored ads. Also go to your local bookstore and look at magazines that relate to your topic, again paying close attention to the ads. If you go to your public library, you can see back issues as well. Have certain advertisers purchased advertising space in previous issues as well? When dollars are being spent on advertising consistently, you can bet that there is a market.

Once you know there is a market for your idea, the next step is to determine how you want to deliver your product. Will it be a physical product such as a DVD, a CD, or a printed book or manual? Will it be a digital product, such as an E-Book? You need to determine this, because the format that the public domain work you choose may matter a great deal to you.

Now that you know what you want to create, and what format you want to deliver your product in to your customers, it will be easier to determine exactly what public domain material you are seeking – and of course knowing that will lead you to the right source to find it!

Just knowing where to find public domain works does not necessarily make it an easy task. Consider the fact that there are literally millions – if not trillions – of works that are in the public domain. Unless you know what you are looking for, and where to look for it, it could be like searching for a needle in a haystack…and sometimes it is like that even if you do know what you are looking for and where to look!

You may think that you can go to one of the various public domain resources and just browse to find a public domain work that you can use to make a profit. The chances of this happening in this way are about as good as you winning the next lottery drawing without buying a ticket. The amount of sources and materials at those sources is incredibly overwhelming.

First, you need a concrete idea. You need to know what it is that you want to accomplish and what type of work will accomplish it. Then, you must determine the best source for finding such a work. Then, you must search at that source. If you know the exact work that you are looking for, you will of course find what you are looking for faster.

You may also need to consider how much or what type of editing you plan to do to a work before you begin your search. The format that the work is in may become an issue, unless it can easily be converted to a format that is suitable for editing purposes.

You may have to download and look at many public domain works before you find what you are looking for. The good news is that your search for a suitable work that is in the public domain will most likely be the hardest part of creating your own product – once you have it, the majority of the work has been done!