Rights to stories

[sublezsue]

I have a story published here. Is there any reason why I cannot also allow another website to publish it?
Thanks, sue

 

[sr71plt]

I have a story published here. Is there any reason why I cannot also allow another website to publish it?
Thanks, sue

No, there's no reason why you can't publish it anywhere else you wish to publish it--as long as they accept "nonexclusive" publishing rights. That's what this Web site has--nonexclusive publishing rights to the story. You gave them that use right when you submitted your story.

 

[CopyCarver]

I have a story published here. Is there any reason why I cannot also allow another website to publish it?
Thanks, sue

You can publish the story on another website, or at a commercial publisher, or anywhere you find a market for it.

Lit's stated policy is " You are simply granting us a non-exclusive right to post your story on Literotica.com. All rights to the story still belong to you, the author. "

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

You can publish the story on another website, or at a commercial publisher, or anywhere you find a market for it.

Lit's stated policy is " You are simply granting us a non-exclusive right to post your story on Literotica.com. All rights to the story still belong to you, the author. "

Furthermore, Lit will take your story down if you ask them, so if you want to sell it to a paper publisher (for example) it would no longer be available on-line for free.

 

[sr71plt]

Furthermore, Lit will take your story down if you ask them, so if you want to sell it to a paper publisher (for example) it would no longer be available on-line for free.

But don't count on a print publisher being interested in publishing something that already has been available on an open Internet Web site for free.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

But don't count on a print publisher being interested in publishing something that already has been available on an open Internet Web site for free.

SR is correct in my experience. I was "hired on" to use the term loosely to write some stories at a nominal fee to be placed on audio (pick your format). The venture fell through, the pay was $30 a story, but the fine print was that the stories could not be available anywhere else.

And I couldn't agree more, why pay for existing material?

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... why pay for existing material?

WHo knows what is in the mind of the buyer? The contrary example which springs to mind is that Macro7 had a longish set of stories on here generically called "Praxton" and then went on to sell them very successfully as e-books, not removing them from Lit until well after publication for money.

 

[sr71plt]

I've sold (at least twice) every story I have here at Lit. since posting it at Lit.--and haven't had to remove any of them from Lit.

Not to a print publisher, though, which is the what I referred to in my earlier posting.

 

[sofy60]

good question

Do we know for certain ?

 

[starrkers]

Do we know for certain ?

Depends what you're referring to. If it's the OP, yes, we know for certain. It's spelled out in the submission guidelines.