Selling publishing rights for photos on my web site

Just had last month a 200.-EUR hit

[jetteroheller]

Surprising email last month

"We want to publish a photo from Your web site in a brochure, please send us the original"

One phone call later, I agreed with the sender of the email on 200.-EUR for the publishing rights in this brochure.

In the meantime, the money is on my account, and I think about how to make selling photos from my website a regular business.

Is there something similar like Google Adsense selling publishing rights from my photos and sending me all the money at the end of the month?

[Essex_boy]

There is a site where I get my site photos from they charge a small fee per photo which is passed on in part to the artist.

Its a non exclusive copyright more like a license

[humblebeginnings]

Jettero,

Congrats! Sounds like a wonderful business opportunity! Think of the amount of pictures you have times $200;-)

[ergophobe]

Pick up this month's copy of Digital Photo Pro (or something like that... sorry I was just reading it at the newstand). I believe it's a US mag so it may be hard to find. Anyway, they review a variety of services for photo pros wanting to sell online in some form or another.

There are also some sites that let you list stock photos for sale and usually charge 50-100 per use. I don't know as I would list photos with one of the subscription or cheap sites. Depends on what they're worth to you and whether or not you want them diluted in that way.

When you sell, make sure you give them only a one-time non-exclusive right (or get more money).

By the way, I just had a similar thing happen to me. I have a bunch of pictures ranging from awful to excellent on a hobby site that really doesn't bring in money and isn't really intended to. Last month I got a cold call from National Geographic and sold them an image. That was a surprise and it also got me thinking that maybe some of my pictures are worth something... separating the wheat from the chaff woudl be a bit of a chore, but it has changed the way I look at my camera.