Book Cover For $3.82

Posted on 11/23/2009 by Editors of Photopreneur | Printable Version | Comments (4)

For most photographers, seeing their photo on the cover of a book should be a highlight of their career. It's the cover that does the selling so when a publisher decides that their image is powerful enough to attract attention and pull in buyers, it's a sure sign that they've take a great photo. They'll be able to see their picture on the shelf every time they walk into a bookstore, enjoy the feeling that customers are placing it on their own bookshelves and the remuneration should be nice too. It doesn't always work out that way though. Now that images are available on microstock sites, photos are appearing on book covers without photographers being aware of the sale, without being credited for the picture and without receiving pay that would even cover the price of a latte in Starbucks.

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Peter Bennett Posted Nov 17, 2009
I did a search on Shutterstock for Sea Turtles and came up with 2491 results. I did the same search on Alamy and came up with 2044 results. Oops! Looks like it was just the luck of the draw as far as the lower search rankings go. Perhaps spreading around his images on several RM or RF sites would have changed his luck on a few of those sites and gotten him higher rankings. Probably got some bad advice and never did the research himself.

Bill Bachmann Posted Nov 24, 2009
Selling Stock keeps reporting on this crap.... yet, in other stories, you tell beginning photographers to START selling on Microstock!!

You push for Microstoock... then publish horroe stories.

JIM... YOU KNOW ME WELL. WHY NOT DO A STORY WHERE YOU INTERVIEW ME AND I WILL TELL THIS SIDE OF THE STORY??? YOU KEEP INTERVIEWING OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO GO CHEAP... YET YOU KNOW I AM ONE OF THE TOIP SELLERS IN THE WORLD AT STOCK.

MY SUGGESTION.... LET ME TELL THIS SIDE WITH YOU TO YOUR READERS!!

What do you say, Jim Pickerill??

Bill Bachmann
www.billbachmann.com

Jagdish Agarwal Posted Nov 24, 2009
Yes Bill, we want to hear your story.

jagdish agarwal/ dinodia/ india

Bonjean Isabelle Posted Nov 24, 2009
I would love to hear Bill as well...
Also I'd like to point the fact that it's easy to say that with normal prices those books wouldn't exist. So what? I truly believe that a good quality picture (bag, car, bread, or whaterver you want to acquire) shoud be paid for what it's worth. The point isn't to create more and more items based on maker's fragile position (and when it comes to shoes or t-shirts you quickly transforms those peoples in slaves).
The market is really nuts at some point. In NO OTHER business would you dare to offer to someone to work for less than the legal fee because he's "NEW" and, even more twisted, to "help" them to GET THE FOOT IN THE DOOR...

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