RE: [APML] Payment for astrophotos

["Tim Hart" <Tim.Hart@haworth.com>]

My Company is clearly a member of this "Cult".  They closed down a manufacturing plant that was making a good profit (2 million a month!) because some bean counter figured they could make "More Money" if they produced it in Canada!

350 people are jobless as a result!

Just my 2 cents...
Tim

>>> jml@astropix.com 11/01/02 04:40PM >>>
Dale,

Your thoughts are pretty representative of the sad state of values that our 
culture has fallen into - the cult of the bottom-line.

Some people do the right thing, not because they have to, but just because 
it is the right thing to do.

Jerry


>You can't expect a company to pay more than market value. if market value is
>'free" then $25 is a gift, an award, a compliment. S&T awards people for
>images because they have a connection to the amateur AP community. They
>don't pay for them because they have too. Publishers are interested in the
>bottom line, they are not going to give away money to support the ethical
>positions of some astro-photographers.


Astronomical photography: http://www.astropix.com 




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