Re: [APML] Licensing Rates (was: Oops Astronomy Mag)

["Andy Wallace" <andywallace@home.com>]

Guys, be careful! :-) If you want to write off your equipment costs against
taxes and you sell pics off your web sites, you must have "a reasonable
expectation of a profit" from your astropic sales. If you have such
expectations , the deductions can be legitimate.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Vaughn" <aa6g@aa6g.org>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Licensing Rates (was: Oops Astronomy Mag)


> Matt,
>
> >> Actually it is worse for books. They really don't have any money to buy
> >> photos. Ask Robert Reeves how many astrophotos would have been in his
book
> >> if he had to pay the going average price of $225 a piece as shown by
the
> >> above link.
>
> > That is in part because Reeves/WillBell didn't expect to sell more than
a few
> > thousand copies of WFA.  There are a bunch of very nice Schmidt camera
images
> > in there from Kent Kirkley.  There's no way Kent could've collected
anywhere
> > near the rates implied by the above calculator.
>
> That's exactly my point in my above comment. Small run books have no
budget
> for photos. The authors don't even make any money on their own work.
>
> > You intend to defray more than a few percent of the tens of $K you've
invested
> > in equipment (some of which you won't get back when you sell), not to
mention
> > 1000's of hours of your time?  If you did consulting in your
professional
> > field (whatever that is), you could get, what, $100/hour?  We'll be
*lucky*
> > (or good business people) if we get more than $2/hour for our AP work.
>
> This is the second (or third?) post with a similar theme. I never meant to
> imply I was expecting to make money from astrophotography or even cover
> equipment costs. OTOH, the magazines should pay the going rate for photos
> as they would for any stock photos.
>
> Chuck <aa6g@aa6g.org>
>
>
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