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
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.
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?
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
The work you are basing it on is in the public domain, so putting your note in the copyright page is important/helpful. But your work is not public domain, so it will still be copyrighted by you/belong to you because it is a retelling and that aspect of it is original. Lots of retellings of Peter Pan get published all the time.
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.
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)
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
You're a gold mine, chief 🙏Thanks for your work
KDP is so iffy, i'm scared to publish those.
Me too
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.
Do I need to write (illustrations & annotations) in the title section beside the name of my book?
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?
Thank you so much for making a video about this. So few people let out information about this stuff.
Thanks Dave, I am working on a piece of public doman work and this has been most helpful.
I love your videos. So helpful.
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
The work you are basing it on is in the public domain, so putting your note in the copyright page is important/helpful.
But your work is not public domain, so it will still be copyrighted by you/belong to you because it is a retelling and that aspect of it is original.
Lots of retellings of Peter Pan get published all the time.
First to comment... well done
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.
that's a better idea than what I did. I did 2 PD books on how to read and write poetry -I make a whopping 75 cents per quarter from them!
As a literary translator, this is incredible valuable to me! Thank you very much.
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)