Syndicating your content

New service brokers publishing fees for bloggers

[Syzygy]

Newspaper and magazine editors can now buy UK bloggers' posts for re-use in print, thanks to a new content brokering agency due to launch next week.

Members of ScooptWords, which is being launched by the citizen photojournalism agency Scoopt, place a button on their website indicating an article is available for re-publication. Publishers then use the service to make a transaction earning them syndication rights to re-print the post.

"We believe, if it's good enough to print, it's good enough to pay for.

[journalism.co.uk...]

The authors' emphasis here seems to be on reproducing blog content for print - I take that to mean in magazines & newspapers. Of course, it could just as easily be applied to the reproduction of online content - or do the brokers making a distinction between print and online media?

Nonetheless, a very interesting move in the blogisphere/citizen journalism world and one worth watching...

Syzygy