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From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:17:08 -0500
Thanks, Ken.  I'm still making enough to make the effort worthwhile, but
just barely!  I'm afraid the textbook industry going to totally digital as
everyone uses iPads instead of actual books will be the end of most stock
photography.  Publishers claim that they will just be using many more
photos, but for some reason think seem to think that digital photos should
cost 1/10 what a printed photo costs.  Crowd-sourcing is also providing
them with tons of photos for free.  I can't afford to work for nothing!
 Micro-stock was the beginning of the end and royalty-free sealed the tomb!

Tina



On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for the heads up on that, Tina.
>
> I was making a decent income from stock in the early and mid '90s and
> then there was the shift of resources from print and multimedia to the
> web. The web people wouldn't pay more than peanuts for anything and
> used clip-art as a means to undermine the industry. Over the past five
> years or so, I've done pretty well with stock sales through the
> agency--in quantity. But I'm making absolutely nothing at $1 to $5 per
> use. Screw that.
>
> Stocks image sales and Herbalife have a lot in common. Only a select
> few people make any money and they do so at the expense of everybody
> else.
>
> Probably the only place to make any money in photography as a
> photographer today is in wedding photography. But even that is
> dictated by local economics and competition.
>
> --
> Ken Norton
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> http://www.zone-10.com
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