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Is this a good marketing ploy for a novel / is it legal?

It's probably been done a lot. If I were to publish a novel, would it pay to sell a passage to literary magazines like Reader's Digest?

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2. I don't know, but I sure like your name. You could go far......
3. That's not the way it works. The Reader's Digest -- which is NOT a literary magazine -- condenses books. It pays the publisher a small fee for this. Usually, the publisher splits this fee with the writer. Sometimes the Reader's Digest will reprint a condensation. Again the fee for this is small. A book condensation usually follows up a good sales track record for the book in book stores. It doesn't usually help the marketing of the book, since it is read by people who generally don't buy books.So far as the legality goes -- it is perfectly legal, if you own the copyright to the book. Selling a passage or two to magazines usually doesn't enter into any marketing plans, since magazines don't work that way. They'll condense a book or review it, but so far as printing a passage -- no.