Sincerely speaking, It is not good. It as well means that although you have 'sold' the article, you still have a share in its content. Instead, you can sell it at a higher price if you just want to earn more money from them.
If you sell your articles to multiple clients then it will be worthless so if you want to make it Worthwhile just make some changes in your articles so that it can pass by copyscape then you can get benefits.
It is absolutely incorrect to say that articles are "worthless" if they're sold to multiple clients. On the ridiculously cheap end, you'll find many buyers perfectly happy with nonexclusive PLR rights. On the higher end, you'll find major publications willing to pay quite a lot for reprints to quality material (far more for nonexclusive rights than many of the writers here in the BST section could ever get, even for "unique" content). What you said only makes sense if you don't look beyond the amateur writer level.
You cannot call an article unique if you are going to sell it to more than one buyer. It is better to sell them as PLR articles. The only thing is that you may have to lower your prices as most people will not pay $3.50 for articles that have been sold over and over again.
Really? I've sold reprints of Web content for $50+, and that's on the low end. If your work isn't complete garbage, people are out there willing to pay you decently for it--even if it's not exclusive. Anyone who feels they need to settle for $3.50 or anything in that vicinity either doesn't respect their own work, doesn't deserve decent pay because their quality is awful, or they're incredibly naive.
Well, If you haven't transfered the rights of the article fully to the customer then you can sell number of copies. But to get the same price of each it is recommended that you should rewrite them and it would work!
At the end of this you can write a book 'Pen and the Art of Recycling'! It's OK there are a lot of Mona Lisa's selling out there at a lower estimated price than the original.
well i have a better questions for you lets say you have a duaghter you make her marry with one guy. And you as being the father asking a question that can i make her marry twice ??? Will that be OK ? if you make your daughter marry twice ? Think It! if that is possible then you can also sell your articles twice
Depending on the country of release or publication, some of the clients won't even bother to check if the material that you have given them is considered original or not as long as it is not immediately recognizable from anything recently in print. That said, as a personal practice, I try not to test my luck with reselling articles. Just a matter of principle really. I believe that each of my clients should get their money's worth. Of course an entirely different story if they only forked out USD$1 for 500 words for example...
It's not about "getting their money's worth." If they want full rights, they always have the option to buy them. You also have the right to charge more for them. If you sell them full rights, then you cannot resell them. If they don't meet your price for full rights, and you haven't signed those full rights away, you're allowed to resell if you want to. Even if you do, they "got their money's worth," because they got exactly what they paid for (limited or first run rights).
If Bob Bly wrote an article about copywriting that showed up in Writer's Digest, and he offered reprints of the article for $300 (assuming his WD contract allowed him to do so), it would be worth the money. Often, when you are reselling an article, your clients are getting way more than just an article some SEO writer wrote real quick after reading about something on Wiki for 5 minutes. If you have a quality article that offers a different point of view, new information, a fresh voice, or was written by a known authority in the field, you can resell and have it be worthwhile for everyone involved. Try to remember that not every writer is writing for the people who make money through Adsense alone. It might not make sense for someone with that business model to buy reprints, or to pay more than $1 for their content.
Working as a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines, I'll often sell my work over, and over, and over. I'll offer first UK rights to the first place I sell it, and I'll sell it around the world too, as first Australian, first American rights, etc. This way, I am not limiting my income from a single article. I realise things work differently on the internet, due to the duplicate content factor. However, if you're selling quality work and can work in a system similar to the one I described above, you should be able to sell your work more than once. Perhaps not thousands of times, but a few times to good quality publishers, who'll pay for good quality writing that brings a fresh view on a topic.