Thread: Selling Papers/Articles to webistes?

So, being an Economics major, I wrote a shitload of papers including my senior thesis about a myriad of different topics. Now, my question is that if I wanted to sell them to a finance blog, or something like that is it legal? Legal in the sense that I have quotes from other works which I cite in the papers, but I literally have 0 knowledge of this type of thing.

Originally Posted by LIGHTWEIGHT

So, being an Economics major, I wrote a shitload of papers including my senior thesis about a myriad of different topics. Now, my question is that if I wanted to sell them to a finance blog, or something like that is it legal? Legal in the sense that I have quotes from other works which I cite in the papers, but I literally have 0 knowledge of this type of thing.

Yes you can sell the articles. I have sold many. When I graduated from college I sold all of my papers to a website for $300 (all papers combined). On a regular basis I take articles written by other people and change the article by adding in more information and changing the topic around and I sell the articles to a pre-medical website for $70 a piece.

I'd think as long as the references and citations are correct I don't see any harm in that.

Originally Posted by medinvest56

Yes you can sell the articles. I have sold many. When I graduated from college I sold all of my papers to a website for $300 (all papers combined). On a regular basis I take articles written by other people and change the article by adding in more information and changing the topic around and I sell the articles to a pre-medical website for $70 a piece.

I wouldn't be so quick to admit that on a public forum.

Originally Posted by LIGHTWEIGHT

Legal in the sense that I have quotes from other works which I cite in the papers, but I literally have 0 knowledge of this type of thing.

Like Devin said, as long as your citations are all there.

Originally Posted by medinvest56

On a regular basis I take articles written by other people and change the article by adding in more information and changing the topic around and I sell the articles to a pre-medical website for $70 a piece.

Plagiarism... you've committed it.

Originally Posted by DoDriven

Like Devin said, as long as your citations are all there.



Plagiarism... you've committed it.

No I don't. Let me explain how I do it. I take an article written by another person and research more information so I can include it. I re-write the article in my own words and put citations in. I do everything legal.

medinvest, where did you find people who were interested in buying them?

Selling every single paper you wrote in college for $300 sounds like some kind of cheating scam deal...

Originally Posted by LIGHTWEIGHT

medinvest, where did you find people who were interested in buying them?

There is a website that I know about for pre-medical students and medical students that has people write content for them. They pay $70 to $140 per article. So I search online for content that has not been written for the website yet and I sell batches of articles to them. I sell them instead of having the rights to the content.

i believed i used a quote in another thread "the great scam of the internet" - this thread tells me i was not harsh enough.

- chuck

I use Odesk.com and regularly pay as little as $3 an hour for people to write articles for me. I use them as a base and then fine tune them with my knowledge and style. Saves me a crap load of time. I wouldn't even consider paying $70 for an article when I can get them for $15.