Can I sell non exclusive publishing rights?

[mlcommonswift]

I am too possessive of my own writing to be a ghostwriter and I hate the idea of losing the rights of my own work, so can I just write a bunch of stories and just allow buyers to publish it on their site or whatever, while keeping the rights and pubblish those same stories myself?

[melanielm]

No. There's something in the TOS about rights passing to the buyer. 

From a practical stand-point, however, selling non-exclusive rights would be a logistical nightmare for publishing. KDP requires ebook exclusivity, for example. If the buyer wanted to post the story there for sale and you put it on your blog, for example, it would break Amazon's TOS. 

I'm not sure what the PLR short story market is like. PLR articles/blog posts are rather a thing of the past. I really can't imagine too many people would want to be interested in reprints with no limit to other sales. What benefit would the buyer get from paying for a story available for free elsewhere?

Edited November 8, 2022 by melanielm

[mlcommonswift]

I don't plan on publishing with amazon.

The idea wasn't to give the same story to each buyer, but a single one from a collection of stories in a book.

But since that is against Fiverr ToS I will just stick to publishing the book.