FattyB - 12:23 am on Nov 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

I think it can be tricky to sell articles to sites on a one off basis, it might be you are better keeping them for your own site.

You might even try hooking up with a news agency and selling the articles to them to resell.

I know I would rather pay a flat rate to a writer than per article, especially in news...where I can pay Reuters, AP or whatever and get the articles at a much reduced cost.

We also pay some writers a % of income from the articles. This works OK for some reviews or say celebrity items, but less well for features and news.

Unless we start pushing about 500K unique a day I would not make money paying say $100 for a med-length article.

From my point of view the problem is some writers expect the same rates they would get from a print publication..same happens with some photo agencies...just not economic on the net unless diong very high traffic...at least in our area. BUt I guess non-news sites could pay more for articles, as longer value for them.