Andrea, Thanks for suggestions. So I would have some sort of free down loadable album (PDF) of a selection of pics? I do Blurb books and highly recommend them. They are available at cost. I could load the pics (not the layout which is a Blurb copyright) into a PDF. I would then sell higher rez files at conventional commercial rates. I'm thinking a start would be to simply have "Royalty Free Pictures" in the web page meta file list. I don't want to go the mini-stock route. AZ Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround E-Book 5ed. NOW SHIPPING http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] Re: Free-almost free pictures? > From: Andrea Coffey <why@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, August 05, 2009 1:54 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > At 06:08 05 08 2009, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >On Tue, August 4, 2009 13:41, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>I'm thinking I should make my work > >>available "pay what you think it's worth" - Is > >>there a marketing term for that? > >In software, that's the classic "shareware" > >model. (not cripppleware, not demoware :-)). > An alternative may be to create a book of your > photographs, and place it on one of the on-line print-on-demand websites > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_on_demand > Even though some may just download the work, > there will likely be others who prefer to > purchase a nicely printed and bound version. > As an example of this, refer to Marco Cantù, who > has written a series of books on Delphi (a > compiler -- a computer program for writing > computer programs). Here's a link to some of > Marco's comments on the process of print-on-demand (scroll down the page a bit) > http://www.marcocantu.com/dh2009 > Here's another example from the field of programming > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/eckel/ > Bruce Eckel has been releasing his books on the > internet for years, receiving corrections and > suggestions from readers, and releasing updates. > Printed and bound versions are also available in > bricks-and-mortar bookshops, with an additional included material on CD. > I'm not able to rediscover the reference, but > there was a warning that not all the > print-on-demand services are equal. There have > been problems with proper registration of the > content on the page. A workaround suggested was > to leave generous margins, including the gutter > for binding. This warning may, however, be due to > poor quality control at a particular bricks-and-mortar print works. > -- > &i (:
