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Alamy Launches Limited Use Scheme |
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Written by Alamy Limited
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
Oxfordshire, UK, 9 June 2008--Alamy, the largest stock photo
site on the web, is launching a new scheme offering customers the
chance to buy images for limited uses for a nominal fee.
Aimed at new users like teachers or bloggers who do not normally buy
pictures, the Limited Use scheme, due to go live imminently, is
initially being trialled in the UK only. It will be launched worldwide
in the near future.
Customers looking for photos for certain web uses such as blogs and
social networking sites or for educational uses like classroom
presentations can buy from Alamy for as little as 60p per picture.
So far around 3.5 million images – approximately a quarter of the 12
million pictures on the Alamy site – are available for Limited Use. The
choice will increase as the Alamy’s ever growing collection continues
to expand.
Contributors to Alamy have the option of making their images available
for Limited Use as well as being sold conventionally, giving them the
opportunity to earn additional income without cannibalising their
existing sales.
Alamy CEO James West said: “This opens up our encyclopaedic collection
to customers who can’t afford conventional licences. It also allows our
contributors to compete in the low cost markets without undermining
their existing revenue streams.”
The scheme differs from micro payment because it covers RF and RM
images, the images are for sale at ‘normal’ prices elsewhere and the
pricing may differ according to the project.
To find out more please read the blog:
http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2008/06/05/2786.aspx
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