advice for pricing photos to be used in book

searcher7nine · 19th March 2006

On a recent trip to Asia I snapped normal tourist-type pics and posted them to my blog. Before long I received an email notifying me that someone writing a horoscope book would like to use them. The author asked what I would charge for use of several pictures. I have no experience in something like this and wondered what advice I could get. I would honestly be fine just letting them use the pics for free, but as a starving student I feel that any extra income on the side would go a long way.

Thanks

garytan007 · 19th March 2006

It depends on the sizes they are looking at, a 8"x10" at 300dpi would probably sell US$150 and more. The minimum size should be around 5"x7" at 72dpi. Best is to do some research on the internet like Gettyimage and see how they price their images.

hondasleeper · 19th March 2006

How many books are they going to print? How is it going to be distributed? Worldwide? You need to also find out how big they are going to be used and where. If it is a cover shot, you could probably ask for more.

19th March 2006	#1
searcher7nine New Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 3	advice for pricing photos to be used in book On a recent trip to Asia I snapped normal tourist-type pics and posted them to my blog. Before long I received an email notifying me that someone writing a horoscope book would like to use them. The author asked what I would charge for use of several pictures. I have no experience in something like this and wondered what advice I could get. I would honestly be fine just letting them use the pics for free, but as a starving student I feel that any extra income on the side would go a long way. Thanks

19th March 2006	#2
garytan007 Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 54	Re: advice for pricing photos to be used in book It depends on the sizes they are looking at, a 8"x10" at 300dpi would probably sell US$150 and more. The minimum size should be around 5"x7" at 72dpi. Best is to do some research on the internet like Gettyimage and see how they price their images.

19th March 2006	#3
hondasleeper Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 334	Re: advice for pricing photos to be used in book How many books are they going to print? How is it going to be distributed? Worldwide? You need to also find out how big they are going to be used and where. If it is a cover shot, you could probably ask for more.