There are two primary factors that should be considered when quoting a
price for textbook use: image size (1/4, 1/2 or full page) and size of
the print run. This article provides a historical perspective on pricing images for textbook uses and offers an update for the current economic climate.
One of the questions of the Stock Artists Alliance spring survey asked:
“What other issues would you like to see SAA address in the year?” The
answers, particularly with regard to the general attitude toward
microstock, were very revealing.
If you have decided on a career as a freelance photographer, your
vocation will be marketing and your avocation, or sideline, will be
photography.
The World Association of Newspapers and Newspaper Publisher has released its annual
World Press Trends report covering 223 countries.
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.
Alamy is celebrating an upcoming milestone with a contest. The company has also joined a growing list of photo distributors to offer iPad apps.
In the fall of 2009, I estimated the size of the worldwide market
for still images and illustrations at about $1.45 billion. In the last
12 months, overall sales have probably remained about the same, with a
few companies seeing sales growth, mostly from taking market share from
those that have gone out of business.
When I published “Top Pros Stop Shooting” in my other newsletter Selling-Stock received an unusual number of comments from industry leaders. Most of those who commented had some disagreement with
the positions I took in the article. Since PhotoLicensingOptions readers will have missed
seeing these comments, I have printed them here along with an editorial response.
“
Top Pros Stop Shooting”
received an unusual number of comments, most of which disagreed with
the opinion presented in the article. Since some of you may have missed
these, here they are—along with an editorial response.