Comments on: King Kaufman: Stock photography and free on-line news http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/king-kaufman-stock-photography-and-free-on-line-news/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/king-kaufman-stock-photography-and-free-on-line-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1115561 Steve Jordan Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:31:20 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/01/king-kaufman-stock-photography-and-free-on-line-news/#comment-1115561 The question usually gets settled by quality. Does the cheap (or free) product offer the quality desired? If not, you buy the quality stuff, and you get what you pay for. But the rocky road of the new digital landscape assures that we won't be settling this question anytime soon, and in the meantime, established content providers must start exploring other business models or risk being inundated by the changing market. The question usually gets settled by quality. Does the cheap (or free) product offer the quality desired? If not, you buy the quality stuff, and you get what you pay for.

But the rocky road of the new digital landscape assures that we won’t be settling this question anytime soon, and in the meantime, established content providers must start exploring other business models or risk being inundated by the changing market.

]]> By: Bruce http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/king-kaufman-stock-photography-and-free-on-line-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1115060 Bruce Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:30:21 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/01/king-kaufman-stock-photography-and-free-on-line-news/#comment-1115060 Art Wolfe, a nature and landscape photographer of some reknown, said in a tv show I saw recently (though it could have been on the web, sorry, I haven't a reference for this) that the stock agencies had stopped buying his work. It wasn't because his output had lost it's zing, it was because they were getting so much stuff from people who didn't value their work very highly, and in having such a hard time making money from cheap work. So he and a couple of friends got together and created their own website to sell their work (using the PhotoShelter.com web service). He also started the Travels From the Edge series about travel photography which shows on PBS. In short, he saw the diminishing stock market and promptly changed his business model. Others have moved to workshops, and guided photo opportunities. The pressure on wedding photographers to lower their prices, based mostly on the theory that the bride's friend with nice digital camera can do as good a job, is being defended largely by disasterous wedding shoots by bride's friends with nice digital cameras. Art Wolfe, a nature and landscape photographer of some reknown, said in a tv show I saw recently (though it could have been on the web, sorry, I haven’t a reference for this) that the stock agencies had stopped buying his work. It wasn’t because his output had lost it’s zing, it was because they were getting so much stuff from people who didn’t value their work very highly, and in having such a hard time making money from cheap work. So he and a couple of friends got together and created their own website to sell their work (using the PhotoShelter.com web service). He also started the Travels From the Edge series about travel photography which shows on PBS.

In short, he saw the diminishing stock market and promptly changed his business model. Others have moved to workshops, and guided photo opportunities.

The pressure on wedding photographers to lower their prices, based mostly on the theory that the bride’s friend with nice digital camera can do as good a job, is being defended largely by disasterous wedding shoots by bride’s friends with nice digital cameras.

]]> By: Jack Tingle http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/king-kaufman-stock-photography-and-free-on-line-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1115007 Jack Tingle Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:58:37 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/01/king-kaufman-stock-photography-and-free-on-line-news/#comment-1115007 That's good classical economic theory. The problem comes when costs exceed the general market price and a previously available good disappears, except for very high priced custom items. ebooks, for example, could have this effect on literature. It's an argument for zealous enforcement of book copyright, and unobtrusive but effective universal DRM. Regards, Jack Tingle That’s good classical economic theory. The problem comes when costs exceed the general market price and a previously available good disappears, except for very high priced custom items. ebooks, for example, could have this effect on literature. It’s an argument for zealous enforcement of book copyright, and unobtrusive but effective universal DRM.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

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