I recently read about an artist here in the UK who spent thousands of pounds collecting 6,000 copies of Dan Brown’s bestselling book The Da Vinci Code and turning them into copies of George Orwell’s 1949 classic, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
David Shrigley, 55, first had the idea for the project he calls ‘Pulped Fiction’, after seeing charity shops requesting people to stop donating Dan Brown’s popular book due to them being inundated with them.
The Da Vinci Code was so popular, that once people had finished reading it, many decided to donate their copy at charity shops which meant that for several months, the bestseller was being dropped off in large numbers.
He originally had the idea in 2017 and when he had amassed 6,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code, he had them pulped and then had Orwell’s book reprinted on the new paper that was produced.
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four fell out of copyright in 2021 which means that it is now in the public domain, which means that anyone can take that book and published it as their own product and keep all 100% of the profits.
Due to the large costs involved with pulping the 6,000 Dan Brown books and reprinting Orwell’s book on the new paper, his new version of Nineteen Eighty-Four have a price tag of £495.
That comes with a 40 minute documentary and the books are numbered and signed by Shrigley himself. The Swansea Oxfam store is selling the books which I believe will raise money for Oxfam.
Shrigley has gone to a lot of effort and hassle to reprint the new versions of Nineteen Eighty-Four. It was part of an art project and a way to bring some attention to the fact charity shops were often inundated with the same books that they struggle to sell, as well as raise money for charity.
You, on the other hand, you can publish books that are in the public domain incredibly fast and cheaply.
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In a previous article I talked about how a guy called Matt Kirkland had built an email list of over 200,000 people by releasing Bram Stoker’s Dracula book as a newsletter.
Dracula, just like Nineteen Eighty-Four, is in the public domain and is free to use as you wish.
Obviously, you wouldn’t pass it off as your own work, far too many people know the book, but you are free to reproduce the book and sell it without paying any licensing fees or royalties.
I dare say that you could give Nineteen Eighty-Four away for free as an eBook and grow an email list focusing on conspiracies. The book is loved by those who think they are being controlled by a group of elites.
You could use Nineteen Eighty-Four and possible create a product around it somehow. I’m not sure as to what kind of product, but taking Matt Kirkland as an example, there could be a newsletter there at least.
The public domain is a huge resource of content that people can use to make money.
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Kind regards.
John Harrison.
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