Tens of thousands of books written by great authors is available for free on the internet today. And it is all totally legal. Here are some examples of authors you can easily locate. Most of their written work are free to download to your computer and read:
- Mark Twain
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- James Joyce
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Charles Dickens
- Jules Verne
- William Shakespare
- Paul Lacroix
- H. G. Wells
- Oscar Wilde
- Lewis Carroll
- Alexandre Dumas
- Rudyard Kipling
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And the list goes on and on. You get the idea. So why is it legal to download, read and even share the work of these thousands of authors with others? It is simple: The books have passed over to the public domain. Basically what this means is that there are no copyrights for the material. So when can you be sure that a book is in the public domain? When the following conditions are fullfilled you can be pretty sure of it:
- The work was created and first published before January 1, 1923, or at least 95 years before January 1 of the current year, whichever is later
- The last surviving author died at least 70 years before January 1 of the current year - No Berne Convention signatory has passed a perpetual copyright on the work;- Neither the United States nor the European Union has passed a copyright term extension since these conditions were last updated. (This must be a condition because the exact numbers in the other conditions depend on the state of the law at any given moment.)
There are some exeptions though. The conditions mentioned above does not apply if you live in one of the following contries:
Colombia, Cote d’ivoire, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Samoa, and Saint Vincent or the Grenadines.
There are many ways to make use of public domain material. The most obvious one would be to read up on the classics. But it is also possible to make a living out of it. Take my self as an example. I use much of my spare time to locate litterature about self development. I have created a website with an opt-in list and send out a new book every week to my subscribers. This is a service I offer for free. In return I get a lot of traffic to my website. There are so much litterature on this topic in the public domain, and I expect to be able to send out books for years to come.
Jarle Husefest
http://www.personaldevelopmentbooks.net
Sources:
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org
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The movie should be available for purchase pretty soon.
It looks like ‘Pass it on’ will be very closely related to the movie ’The Secret’. It is about the Law of Attraction and how to get what you want out of life.
Watch the trailer
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Have you noticed how some people just seem to always be in the zone? They always reach their goals and get everything they want in their lives. How can this be?
One possible answer would be that they are just lucky. Another answer could be that they know something others do not. Let us explore those two answers a little further.
What if it is Luck?
Luck is considered to be something we can not control. If you won a million dollars in a lottery you would call it luck. If you discovered your car had a flat tire when you was already late for work, you would probably call it bad luck. Some people are considered to be lucky while others are considered to be unlucky. If luck is what makes the difference between rich and poor, then there is nothing we can do to change it. We will just have to trust that destiny is doing what it is supposed to do for us.
What if they know something others do not?
If the successful people know something that can get them anything they want, it would be a totally different story. That means that everyone, with the right knowledge, could get what they want. YOU could get everything you want. Wow, think about that for a moment. Where would you be today if this was true? I got news for you: It is true. It is called the Law of Attraction.
All matter is energy. The chair you are sitting on, the trees in the backyard, your house and your car. It is all vibrating energy. And so are you. So, what makes us vibrate? Have you heard the expression you are what you eat? The same goes for thoughts. You truly become what you think about. Our thoughts and feelings make you who you are to the rest of the world. What you think about today is what you will get tomorrow.
The main thing that will make the Law of Attraction work in your favour is your feelings. You are always utilizing the Law of Attraction, whether you know it or not. If you are feeling bad, that is exactly what you will attract. If that is the case, you need to do anything you can to turn it around. Switch the negative thoughts with positive ones. Smile to everyone you meet (even if you do not want to). Sing in the shower. Become aware of your inner dialog and change it. When you first start doing this it will feel artificial and unreal to you. But if you stick to it, you will see that an incredible change takes place inside of you. You will start to attract positive things and people.
Think of your self as an adjusted magnet. You will attract all the things you think about the most. If all you can think about are your bills, then that is what you will get more of. If all you can think about is the money you have, then that is what you will attract. Stop worrying about the things you can not do anything about, and start paying attention to the things you can change. Be patient. You have planted a seed. Everything that is in your life today, is there because of what you have thought about in the past.
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