Court Finds Pearson Must Reveal Print Quantities And Publication Dates

By Jim Pickerell | 505 Words | Posted 3/22/2012 | Comments
In the case of Jon Feingersh Photography, Inc. vs. Pearson Education, Inc. Judge Anita B. Brody in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has denied a request from Pearson that it not be required to release the print quantities and publication dates of the various textbooks in which 50 of Feingersh’s images were used.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Going Out Of Print

By Jim Pickerell | 478 Words | Posted 3/21/2012 | Comments
After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB) is going out of print. Sales peaked for Britannica in 1990 with 120,000 copies sold. In 2010 – the last edition – only 8,000 copies of the 32-volume set were printed and 4,000 still sit in a warehouse unsold.

Will iPads Become A Standard Fixture In The Classroom?

By Jim Pickerell | 414 Words | Posted 3/21/2012 | Comments
Recently, the results of a year long study of Algebra 1 students at the Amelia Earhart Middle School in Riverside, California were announced. The math scores of the students who were taught using Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 curriculum on the iPad were 20% higher in the Spring 2011 California Standards Test than other students who were taught using traditional paper textbooks.

epa and Alamy Announce Strategic Commercial Agreement

By Jim Pickerell | 300 Words | Posted 3/20/2012 | Comments
Alamy and epa european press agency have signed a strategic commercial agreement which allows Alamy to sell epa's award winning news, sport and entertainment images including the epa archive. The images are available through Alamy’s website to key market sectors in the UK, North America and the Middle East.

Splash News Breaks Five Million Images

By Jim Pickerell | 229 Words | Posted 3/20/2012 | Comments
Splash News has an archive of more than five million images and is adding new images at a rate of 5,000 a day, up from 3,000 a day a year ago. Splash was acquired by Corbis last summer. Its images are being added to both Splashnews.com and Corbis.com.

Pricing Stock Images Based On Usage

By Jim Pickerell | 300 Words | Posted 3/18/2012 | Comments
There are a number of stories on this site that will aid you in determining what to charge for a stock photo usage. Below is a list of story titles and the number of credits required to read the entire story. Click on the detailed description link and it will take you to a short description of what is included in the full story. Click on the Story link and it will take you directly to the story and deduct the appropriate number of credits from your account.

Making Stock Photography Profitable

By Jim Pickerell | 1405 Words | Posted 3/16/2012 | Comments (1)
If your goal is to earn a full-time living from photography -- and particularly stock photography -- you need to read this series of 14 articles. They were originally written in the summer of 2010. Since then the general state of the photographic industry has continued to go downhill. These articles discuss key aspects of the business and issues that those who want to earn their living taking pictures must consider.

Fotolia Acquires Wilogo, Expands to Crowdsourced Design

By Jim Pickerell | 345 Words | Posted 3/16/2012 | Comments
Online stock photography agency Fotolia has acquired Wilogo.com, a thriving community for design crowdsourcing. The community, founded in 2006, has been connecting companies in need of design work with a community of people willing to take on the job. Wilogo positions itself as a full service crowdsourced design community able to accommodate most marketing and branding requirements of client companies.  Designers who participate have expertise in both print and web design.

Stockfreeimages.com Offers 400,000 Free Images To Designers, Webmasters and Bloggers

By Jim Pickerell | 593 Words | Posted 3/16/2012 | Comments
Dreamstime has launched Stockfreeimages.com a database of almost 400,000 royalty free image that they have culled from their primary collection. They are giving these images away for free. One of the interesting things about the image selection for this Free service is that Dreamstime has chosen to include  some of its best selling images from its primary collection.  

Too Many Images

By Jim Pickerell | 552 Words | Posted 3/15/2012 | Comments (1)
I received a marketing email from Pixmac today encouraging people to look at their Easter Egg pictures in preparation for Easter. They have 29,723 images to choose from.

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Jim Pickerell launched his career as a photographer in 1963. In 1990 he began publishing a regular newsletter on stock photography. In 1995 the information was made available online as well as in print and was gradually expanded to a daily service. Click here for Pickerell's full biography.

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