Generating Adsense site from a book?

July 23, 2007

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I just found a site that looks like it must be an old book that someone got the right to put online and pepper with adsense ads.

Do people do this? Are there books out there where publishers and authors are willing to part with these online rights for a piece of the action?

– Gary

There are hard copy publications of the 1940’s and before that should be no more protected by copyright issues. As an example I personally own a 2-volume encyclopedia of great historical interest, a 10-volume encyclopedia organized by theme, with a great many historical photos, geographically localized; a number of very ancient books, never republished, that I find fascinating for both the language and the mind view; some years of a late 19th century newsletter with comic strips and caricatures of VIP’s of the time.

These resources if decently transformed into web pages would be a great contribution to the Internet community, considering that also Wikipedia is using the 1911 Britannica in many archaeological and historical descriptions, and many other websites and projects are just doing that.

I am inclined to say that:
- if there are actually no copyright issues anymore and the publication was never reprinted (which would otherwise restart the 50-year copyright running again for the new publishers - but this is valid in my country jurisdiction);
- if after all the scanning and OCR the text is thoroughly corrected for spelling and punctuation, and maybe notes supplied to put the content in its historical perspective;
- if the publications are decently organized for the end-user, segmented into pages, with menus and intuitive navigation;

Then the output might be considered as new content as any research on old or ancient sources and treated as such under all points of view, and of course also monetized with Adsense or other marketing tools.

Consider also that whoever republishes can take steps to protect all the work - in my country (Italy) also what is published on the web is given the status of printed publications by law courts, and a simple way to protect the rights would be to secure a CD of the work with a timestamps and deposit it with a notary.
Author: Zerotre

I published half of my first and last book written 1992 to 1993.

First edition was 2000 books, but the publisher went bankrupt, just as he should distribute my book. So I had to do all selling myself.

2005, I put first half of the book in a sub domain of my main domain.

$3074 so far with AdSense.

When I look on the normal royalties at publishers, a 20.- EUR book is for 10.-EUR in the bookstore, 10% for the author.

So AdSense brings me the equivalent of 3 sold books per day. When I find the time to publish also the second half, maybe 6 books per day.

That’s very good for a book published 1993.

Author: jetteroheller

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