Selling Reprints

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readMay 22, 2019

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Making money beyond the assignment.

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Most United States publications purchase columns and articles for First North American Serial Rights. This means they get to publish the article first and after an embargo period, usually specified in your contract, the writer is free to reprint their work elsewhere. However, many agreements these days are done via email without a written contract which means it’s up to the writer to clarify what…

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Bonnie is an award-winning syndicated columnist and opinion editor for The Louisville Courier Journal @WriterBonnie