Republishing

[Julian]

Hiya gang,

Anyone have any insight about republishing my own work elsewhere? I am trying to finish a story for a small (30K +/-) book in the Greenleaf/Patch Pockets vein of past paperbacks but as an e-book.

I am doing the artwork myself and adding 08 - 10 more chapters to the already-published work here.

Will I be in trouble since it is my own work or do I just need to give credit for what was previously published and where the original content was posted?

Can I add-on to the original stories, making them longer or just giving them more purple prose?

Do I need a release or permission?

Links anyone?

Thank you kindly.



Julian

 

[BONNIEBREA]

My understanding is that in publishing at Literotica you are extending to them a non-exclusive right to publish your story.

You can publish your story in any form you like anywhere else you like, and as the copyright owner you can rescind from Literotica the non-exclusive right to publish that you'd extended to them.

 

[sr71plt]

Yes, all you've given to Literotica is nonexclusive rights. You can do anything else with it that you want. Everything I have post to Literotica is also for sale in some form (or is part of an expanded book for sale) in the e-book and/or print book market. No permissions/no notification needed to Literotica. If you go with an e-publisher, they may only publish if you pull it from Lit.--but mine don't require that.

 

[Julian]

Any other examples

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Thank you Authors for all your information. Does anyone else have a link they'd like to share with me so I can see your books, what you've published previously, and where you are now?

I'm drawing inspiration & learning from all of you.

Blessings,




Julian

 

[D_Lynn]

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Thank you Authors for all your information. Does anyone else have a link they'd like to share with me so I can see your books, what you've published previously, and where you are now?

I'm drawing inspiration & learning from all of you.

Blessings,




Julian

Julian,

I have a site but I don't remember the rule around posting links in a forum. I'm new to Literotica.

My first publication in ebook is out on Amazon right now and doing VERY well. I'm working on the second book of the series.

I'd be happy to share with you my experience with this; here, or PM. I'm not the most experienced author, obviously, but I have been through this recently. I've already faced a lot of the challenges around self-publishing.

-Dakota

 

[Julian]

Thank you for the advice

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So far I have to say the examples and links are great. Now does anyone have any places/publishers to avoid?

I've heard horror stories about Lulu.com but can't say for sure.

Thanks again.​

 

[sr71plt]

lulu once was the best place to go to totally (I mean you knew how to do everything involved in setup and production yourself) self-published print book. For the book itself. The hardest part, the marketing was still your own problem.

For erotica, I don't see why one wouldn't try an e-publisher first. You can get a list of likely e-publishers for your books by going to distributors like Fictionwise, Allromanceebooks, or Smashwords and picking out publishers of books like yours from the listings, clicking on the publisher lists, and then on the publisher's Web site. If they are accepting submissions, they'll let you know how you can submit to them.

For doing it yourself (which has the risk if low visibility unless you are going to burp a new one out yourself every month or so to develop a fan base and some reviews) I don't see why anyone wouldn't go straight to Amazon's Kindle program for e-books and CreateSpace for print books. As far as I can say, more than 80 percent of all sales are on Amazon anyway.

 

[Julian]

Great Thanks!

sr71plt,

Thank you for your kind words. You're right; producing it is the hardest part, but there have been so many places and when you check to be sure how the publisher safeguards you, then you find out about the complaints.

I am actually thinking about using the Amazon self-publishing as a launching pad, making my books Kindle-accessible as .pdfs before I can hope to launch myself into a bigger writing career.

Thank you for your response.

Blessings,




Julian

 

[R. Richard]

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Thank you Authors for all your information. Does anyone else have a link they'd like to share with me so I can see your books, what you've published previously, and where you are now?

I'm drawing inspiration & learning from all of you.

Blessings,




Julian

Go to Club Lighthouse Publishing and do a search on R. Richard.

 

[shabbu]

sr71plt,

Thank you for your kind words. You're right; producing it is the hardest part,

Lest I was misunderstood. Producing it now is one of the easiest parts. Selling it is the hardest part.

Opps, sorry, I was checked in in my coauthor name. This was meant to be by habu.