Here is a story about a guy who made $60,000 a month off the internet with multiple web sites and Adsense.

I’ll summarize the story for you if you don’t have time to read it. Smart guy takes a few pages of text, buys thousands of domain names, automates the process of building web sites and puts Adsense on every page. After a certain period of time, he rakes in $60,000 a month which is basically pure profit.

Of course, he gets caught out by Google after a certain period of time but did you get the point of the story? The internet (and Google) needs content so much that even if you provide crap content, you can monetize it. Which bring me back to the printing business.

Even the smallest printer with a Prinergy system has a collection of PDF files that collectively numbers in the 1000s of pages. And the larger web printers probably have millions of pages indexed. What if those PDF pages in a Prinergy system were converted to HTML and then put on a web site to be indexed by Google? How much revenue would that generate?

Do printers own the copyright on those pages in their Prinergy system? No. But how hard would it be possible to enable revenue-sharing with the copyright owners? There are already many models for such systems operating like that on the web.

Actually, I think the monetization of Prinergy PDF repositories will begin to occur in the next three years, although it won’t be driven by the printers, but by the Adsenses-savvy marketeers who will see an opportunity to buy up the data repositories sold by bankrupt printers. Just a hunch.