It Just Got Harder To Be A Stock Photographer
It’s never been easy shooting stock for the likes of iStockPhoto, but once upon a time the highly ambitious could make a career out of microstock.
Perhaps that time is over. IStockPhoto, one of the largest microstock sites out there, recently announced that it was cutting payments to photographers to as low as 15 percent.
The biggest issue: IStockPhoto COO Kelly Thompson’s justification for the pay cuts seems wrong to many contributors.
Why?
Last week, Thompson posted this in the iStockphoto forums:
“Since roughly 2005 we’ve been aware of a basic problem with how our business works.
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