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That's definitely not good for a book cover. I had a pair of $250 book licenses last month (please bring April back) -- one page/inside. So the good ones are still out there.

 

I used to get quite a few IQ book sales but they seem to have evaporated.

 

Update: Looks as if I spoke too soon. An $86 IQ book sale showed up today. Oddly there are no details about size and placement. The license just says "one-time use only."

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Same here John,  iQ sale: Educational book, editorial print + digital use, front cover, one time use only.

 

Good to hear that there are still some high value deals around, a couple of $250 sales would do very nicely!

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Earlier this month had a regular (not iQ) book cover license for $75.  It may have been for a composite, but still a mean sale.  Yesterday had a US distributor RM editorial sale (not via Alamy) for $600, almost certainly a book ... well, if it was a magazine, it certainly would be a turn-up for the books ;) ).  Had one exactly the same last month.

 

There is money around.  Buyers just don't want to let Alamy have any of it.

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Robert  Brook;  There is money around.  Buyers just don't want to let Alamy have any of it

 

There is money around,  i have recently licensed cover images ( elsewhere ) between 250 and 350 Euro,  so it is possible.

 

Paul.

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Same here John,  iQ sale: Educational book, editorial print + digital use, front cover, one time use only.

 

Good to hear that there are still some high value deals around, a couple of $250 sales would do very nicely!

 

I was wrong, the $86 license says "inside. One time use only." Who knows how these IQ prices are cooked up.

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So where are buyers splashing the cash? 

 

Buyers like all of us shop around,  we all like a good price and bargains when we can get them,  sometime though we are forced to pay a higher prices for items that  are not easily found,  it's the same with picture buyers, when they cannot find what they want in the big archival supermarkets where prices are reasonable and often bargains to be had, the buyers then turn directly to photographers and specialized archives where they will pay the extra cash for what they need, hence (splashing the cash)

 

 

Well that is my take on it anyway!

 

 

Paul.

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So where are buyers splashing the cash?

 

The one I mentioned is a NY based agency mainly specialising in academic publishing.  It has been around since before even Milton Park based RM Education (formerly Research Machines) had been dreamed of [without which there might never have been an Alamy].

 

"it's the same with picture buyers, when they cannot find what they want in the big archival supermarkets where prices are reasonable and often bargains to be had, the buyers then turn directly to photographers and specialized archives where they will pay the extra cash for what they need" PM

 

Publishers often go to academic/book specialists first where budgets allow them to, even if they do pay more.  Although there have been recent financial and structural problems within the sector, on the whole it is fairly stable, and unlike advertising and magazine publishing, library content isn't usually secondary to commissioned work or images sourced directly from individuals.  Do Google book searches and study the credits to see who the main suppliers are for different types of academic books.

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