If you have decided on a career as a freelance photographer, your vocation will be marketing and your avocation, or sideline, will be photography.

Though Ellen Boughn got there just a few months sooner, photographer and veteran iStockphoto inspector Rob Sylvan has authored Taking Stock: Make Money in Microstock Creating Photos That Sell, available from Peachpit.

The World Association of Newspapers and Newspaper Publisher has released its annual World Press Trends report covering 223 countries.

The popular Strictly Business conference series from the American Society of Media Photographers returns in January 2011.

Visual Connections—the freshly rebranded Picturehouse Marketing US—is hosting the 2010 Image Expo at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York on October 13.

Photographers should be alert for textbook publisher requests for new image licenses to extend print runs on books that have already been printed without obtaining such licenses. In many cases, image owners may be entitled to high retroactive usage fees for copies already printed and distributed, as well as a fee for the new books the publisher intends to produce.

Recently on Linkedin Jacintha van Beveren observed that “The old photography business model is gone,” observed and asked if the road to survival and future success is through “creativity and flexibility or stubborn protection.” Neither.