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Dear LS community.

Thank you all for your constructive feedback. I will add, that it has been diverse. We have received messages and emails advocating for a variety of models. The result is what follows. Of course, we look forward to your comments; indeed, we welcome them.

Mondolibrary: a photo library targeting the nonprofit and public interest sector exclusively. It aims to be affordable to the client but fair to the photographer. It aims to have high end images for the demanding circumstance, and affordable imagery for less critical missions that could still benefit from relevant visual content.

The rate structure: The photographer has the option to set her or his own price within a price bracket. The price can be set on a photo by photo basis. We encourage photographers to aim higher rather than lower. While we realise discounting seems attractive, we support the needs of photographers to make a living and cover their expenses. Note, however, that our photographers accept to have a discount applied, at the discretion of mondolibrary, of up to 50%, when the image could serve the need of justifiably under-resourced organisations. These discounts will be rare and will have to be, as said, fully justified by the client. In short, most organisations will pay the asking price. We will divide the price matrix into three resolutions. Each resolution will have a minimum and maximum asking price. In other words, we will not accept to sell an image for less than the minimum price, nor will we sell above the maximum price. Here are the prices in USD:

Full res Max: $300 Full res Min: $30 Mid res Max: $100 Mid res Min: $20 Low res Max: $30 Low res Min: $10

The revenues will be split as follows: Mondolibrary percentage: 40% Photographer’s percentage: 60% Note that we considered a sliding split, but our current application cannot handle it to our satisfaction.

Now for the new news. We are going to create a new agency. Name: mondoagentia Urls: not live yet but mondoagentia.org/net/com Goal of the agency: promote select communications and media professionals to the nonprofit sector aiming to obtain maximum/pertinent fees. We will be selective and position the agency at the high end of the competency spectrum. Our goal is to represent top photographers, illustrators, freelance graphic artists, editors, translators, fundraisers, campaigners, trainers and strategic consultants. We may add/modify these categories slightly. We will likely adopt an escrow payment system to ensure both the client and the professional obtain transactional satisfaction. The agency will not be up and running for a few weeks. We want to do it right.

In both cases, one thing is certain, we will be putting the full weight of mondofragilis’ marketing into the mix.

Please note that mondolibrary does not yet reflect the statements made above. We want some feedback before modifying the paradigm online.

A final note. The application currently used for mondolibrary is temporary. We will be upgrading in a few months and will be able to offer far more to the community.

Over to the community…