Some photographers are saying that the numbers in Negotiating Stock Photo Prices are out of date and should be reduced. See why we disagree.
Photographer/editor judiwhite offers some useful suggestions on pricing web page uses. Her insights are particularly important because she was one of the founding editors of Time Warner's Virtual Garden on Pathfinder, and has a solid understanding of the publishers perspective.
These short news items include: Sheldon Marshall's return to the indusry, Gamma Sold, Web Crawlers Win Right to use Your IMAGES, Decline in the Printing Industry, What foreign agents want in the way of images, and more.
Dirck Halstead, President of The Digital Journalist has founded a new agency to help still photographers produce and sell digital video projects for use on television and the web. The next training session is at Apple Computer in California in January.
United News & Media, (UNM) parent of Visual Communications Group (VCG), and Carlton Communications have announced a £7.8 billion ($12.6 billion) merger. VCG is scheduled to be sold as the new company focuses on its television business.
Getty's third quarter sales and their story to the investment community offer some interesting insights for photographers.
Getty raises an amazing $269.1 million in a public offering of 6,900,000 shares. The share price was $39 per share. They raised enough to pay for the entire acquisition of The Image Bank and have plenty of cash to spare.
The Glencoe story takes more twists and turns. Additional titles have been discovered about which image sellers have not been notified or paid.
These short news items include: NAFP Disbands, Todtri Served In Effort To Collect, Getty Acquires Newsmakers, Corbis E-Commerce Sales, PACA International Conference and Photonica Appoints Mayes COO.
This story provides a breakdown of the stock agencies that have been acquired by other agencies in the last few years.