Would I be able to publish work I've put on here?

[Eros_343]

I was thinking about taking some of stories on here to amazon or the like to self publish. I'd still leave the free stories up because I don't want to be a douche. Can I legally do that, or does literotica have copyright on it?

 

[JagFarlane]

You own the copyright to your work. From the submission page:

Thank you for deciding to submit your writing to Literotica. By submitting your work to this site, you are granting us the non-exclusive right to publish your submission, and to use all legal means to protect submitted work from unauthorized use by other parties. You retain all copyrights to your submission.

 

[StrangeLife]

You retain the full copyright to your own work and can do whatever you please with it - including reworking it for publishing elsewhere.

 

[Eros_343]

Sweet. Thanks.

 

[sr71plt]

Sweet. Thanks.

Nearly everything I have posted to Literotica is off somewhere published to the marketplace too.

 

[Bramblethorn]

As above, but note that if you're self-publishing on Amazon, they require that you're not offering the work for a lower price elsewhere, so if they find out it's still up for free on Lit they're likely to take it down from Amazon.

 

[TamLin01]

Legally, yes.

But anything that's not first publication is automatically less attractive to publishers, to the point that I can't imagine any would even look at it. But in these days of self-publishing, perhaps that doesn't bother you.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I put my stories up on other publishing sites. I find different audiences at other sites.

In this blogpost I describe the differences I notice between the ones I publish to: http://feministeroticawriters.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/where-to-publish-your-hot-stuff.html