[APML] Payment for astrophotos

["Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

This topic has been discussed here before but I just thought I'd share some
recent experiences.
Two different people have emailed me over the past two months wanting to use
some of my images in a text book and regular book.  One being on the cover.
I emailed both of these people back with a price and never heard from them
again.  Both were very interested and indicated they really wanted to use
the image, specified in their original email, but once I gave them a price,
which was in the hundreds of dollars range, they vanished.  Not even a
"that's too much, can you accept this" reply.  Nothing.  I based my price on
the following licensing calculator:
http://photographersindex.com/price-ed-calc.htm  I even came in on the low
side.

I refuse to give my images away for free.  My guess is that's what they were
expecting......  Too much time and effort goes into them.

Chris


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Chris Cook
Astronomical Photography
www.abmedia.com/astro



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