Give away a book's worth of your photos, forever, for $35

But look at the exposure! And maybe, if I’m lucky, they’ll include a picture of me wearing a scarf….

The State of the Art:

“To affordably make a book of one’s own photography, with complete creative control, is a liberating, exciting, highly personal, and satisfying experience,” says Eileen Gittins, CEO of Blurb, one of the contest sponsors (others include Livebooks, Flickr, SmugMug, and American Photo).

Can’t help but stupidly read that as, “To gain control over a ton of books full of original photography, with complete creative control, is a liberating, exciting, highly profitable, and satisfying experience,” says every one of the contest sponsors.

The State of the Art Security Alert is Red, meaning Severe. Take cover.

I think this sort of apparent weirdness is well described here:
http://aphotoeditor.com/2008/03/14/pay-to-play/
This seems to be the norm in that strange parallel universe of advertising/fashion/”art” photography, god help them.

Not exactly Jerry, It could be on the emerging market, and ther is always people strving willing to sell their soul..at the mean time, fortunately there is still a serious stablished one where you show, sell, publish, get paid and not the other way around..What you need to do is respect yourself and not enter the ” dirty show”
cheers,
Pupo

I could use them 25 grand to upgrade my gear. But I won’t give away the rights to my (crappy) pictures, Angel on my shoulder has won it again from the devilish money grabbing one on the other.