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Subject: [OM] Re: iStock
From: "Leandro DUTRA" <leandro.gfc.dutra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:43:14 -0300
2007/8/28, Bill Pearce <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>:
>
> Let's look at new and old. In the pre-digital age, stock photos were shot by
> professional photographers who made all or part of their living by selling
> stock, and supporting themselves and their family, sending the children to
> college, etc. In todays world, stock photos are all but given away by
> amateur photographers who, after selling a bazillion, use the money to buy
> another memory card.

So what?  Now much more people can buy stock than before.  Also it
kills the market for stock copycats, which can only be good.


> Not wanting to sound like Jan, but I see the term 'new business model" most
> often used as a description of a way for a few wildly successful people to
> get what they want by spending the least amount and supporting the fewest.

And who would be these few?  Ultimately competition will come to them too.


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