I have 5000+ pre-written articles (undergrad/grad level). Start a site selling pre-written content?

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I know someone with 5000+ Pre-written "essays" (essays actually means research papers, mid term papers, dissertations, thesis papers ect) that has been compiled over a 12-15 year period. These articles are already 75% catalogued with data such as title, # of pages, words, description, keywords, and # of sources. All the work is original, non plagiarized, and perfectly cited depending on the specified citation format. He owns all of the content, although it was written for a paying customer at some point over the years. The content is of undergraduate and graduate level courses, and written well, averaging a B+ in total.

The content ranges in essays between 4-15+ pages, much of it written "to date" (ie avoiding the use of terms such as 'last week' in the sentence "last week George W. Bush was elected president". Either way the content can be rewritten by purchaser if desired.

My idea is to partner with said person and build a website that offers this content for sale. The website would harbor all the content and users would search for things that they need. This would be simple, easy to use and effective. The purchase would be made and the content would then be available for download immediately, in MS Word format.

I've researched the market quite a bit. While it seems that selling Writers for Hire (clients submit a needed paper and website assigns a freelancer basically) is the more common market, there are multiple other sites offering content that is pre-written at prices that very from 4-8 a page. At even the lower end of these prices, I feel that my writer could be sitting on a gold mine, but I have only dabbled in the online marketing world. Much of the content offered on these pre-written content sites is very poor quality. The writing is extremely bland and often includes no sources. Along with that, most of the sites had extremely bad. The sites have poor layout with way too much information on the landing page. I felt confused just trying to do market research on this topic so I can only imagine how a potential client could feel (the target market is fairly obvious here).

All that being said, and with as much of an unbiased opinion, I feel like this could be a great opportunity. Of course
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  • Profile picture of the author flightmac
    Posted on accident Rookie mistake

    Of course, I have much to learn in this business, but do ya'll think that this is a venture to take on?
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  • Profile picture of the author awledd
    I saw a site , a marketplace for essays etc sometime in the past and I think it mat sell there. It is also fine if you do it on your own but you may suffer for loss of traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author michakins
    Seems…both the writer and you are sitting on a goldmine.

    Why not consider setting up a website in that niche. I’m sure the audience will notice the same thing. They will discover that your website has more quality.

    If you go post those articles, interlink them together and promote them, you could earn loads of money. That will be better than selling those sweet works.
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  • Profile picture of the author crums1371
    I agree with michakins. I would utilize those puppies a little more than just selling them all off.

    But there's a lot of possibilities. I've heard of some ghost-writing businesses make decent money.
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    • Profile picture of the author flightmac
      Thanks all! I appreciate the input.

      @michakins @crums1371:

      When you say to set up a website in that niche, I think I understand. The problem that I foresee or that I can't seem to get past is that all the "essays" that are available are all on different topics, for the most part. Many would fall into similar categories (history, art ect) but I would have to split them up that way. After thinking about it just now I guess thats not so bad if I have a lot of one type I can change the names to reflect more attention grabbing themes and then link them together that way. Am I understanding you guys correctly? I categorize the articles for this, looking for similar themes amongst them that I can turn into a niche site and link them...

      Either way you bring up a great point and I may actually do both, sell pre-written essays and start niche sites and interconnect articles that fit. The latter is much easier for me to do on my own time using WP, so I'd see no reason not to.

      Thanks again everyone!

      More advice always accepted
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