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HEYYY... Got my first sale at Alamy... Was quite a surprise after 1 month there...

But...

Novel use    Novel Use Scheme 1   $ 0.83

Deceivingly low :p.

How can I get 0.83$ if the minimum file size price sold is 5 pounds ?

Thanks for your insight!

Probably you will never get any of prices what you see on the site for any size (not only for Novels), because buyers negotiate for price with Alamy...

So, we are in mercy of these both sides..

I think I got my first sale after about 1000 images and at least six months. I'd have to look.

Fortunately for me, I have never had a novel use purchase. (yet?)

Only fair that I mention some of my pictures are RF and I don't know why, the first 1500 were all Editorial. I looked 135 are RF and probably none are suitable for NU or Microstock. I honestly ask myself about once a week, why I don't ask Alamy to just make everything licensed except the one RF image that sold.

The subject matter and license may be that my stuff just doesn't lend itself to any NU purchase, which is fine with me.

So when I comment, it needs to be recognized that I have nothing the same on Micro or Alamy. The subjects and images are very different from what you might have.

As a result my results and averages will be different from someone submitting micro images to Alamy and expecting something other than micro payments for the same?

Here's hoping that I never get an 83 cent sale for a 48MB file that I thought was going up for sale somewhere that pays better than "spare change" I'd be disappointed too.

My last sale had no search (that I could find), no views, no zooms. So much for the way those are counted.

Nice work if you get six a month out of under 1000 images.

No!
That is veery good month, usually I have 1 sale in average...
Four of these six are NU, so only 2 are RF...

Congratulation!

I am waiting for April to switch off NU...

thank you, borg

cclapper - NU opt out is during April (or something like that).

I think I had up to a few dozen images on A for 2 years before sales started, after which I paid more attention to submitting. Can relate to deleting images, though, since I've closed most accounts, for one reason or another.

No, it wasn't the uploading process. IIRC, I think I started uploading before I was thinking about going exclusive at IS, and then stopped. Then when I decided not to go ex (whew!) I read how it has taken a lot of folks many months or years to get sales and I think I just got discouraged and stopped uploading. It was just during that time when there was a lot of fence hopping back and forth on my part, in regards to what agencies I wanted to stay with.

That one was getting long and I went and searched because I was sure I'd seen something explaining the new sales a bit clearer. I found it.


To clarify regarding the recent novel use sales that have been posted to some contributors accounts. We launched the Novel Use scheme in September 2007 Please see our blog post to announcement at that time. http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2007/09/19/1931.aspx

In March 2008 we began working with a customer on a large pilot project involving corporate subscriptions for internal business use. The $1 sales that you may have received recently are a result of that pilot. The project has now been extended and we have posted a number of $4 sales as a result of the first phase.

The nature of these projects is such that we have to wait until phases are completed until we can determine how much will be returned for each sale, hence the delay in reporting these sales.

If you opted in to Novel Use initially but then opted out again, perhaps in June 2008 when we opened the opt out window for a short period of time, it could well be that you will still see Novel Use sales posted. These sales originated at a time before you had opted out. From the point that you opted out no further Novel Use sales would have been made.

These Novel Use sales are unrelated to ‘Limited Use’ which has been discontinued.

These Novel Use sales are also entirely unrelated to our UK Newspaper scheme deals, which does not operate as part of ‘Novel Use’.

To check your Novel Use status, simply go to My Alamy and click on the Novel Use link under ‘Additional Revenue Opportunities’

We have also seen comments relating to the number of images reducing on the Alamy site plus recent activity regarding restricted images.

These two issues are entirely unrelated.

The number of images has reduced recently and will continue to reduce over the next few days because we could not reach agreement with Getty Images for renewing their distribution contract with us. This means that their collections have been removed from the site.

We recently emailed all contributors who had restrictions on their images, whilst we appreciate that often restrictions are a necessity, however we also find that many contributors forget that they have set restrictions and so we took the opportunity to contact contributors to remind them to check whether their restrictions still apply. We are glad we did as many contributors have now removed outdated restrictions and have therefore increased the sales potential of their images.

As ever if you have any specific questions please email [email protected]

Alan Capel
Head of Content Alamy

I like the way they call then schemes. Maybe it's different over there, but I think of it as things like Ponzi schemes and the like.

Yes I found it after I said I was going to sleep, but finding all of those different pages, never did explain it to me as far as payments, times and amounts.

I feel sorry for people who get 83c sales, I haven't and probably won't because I don't have UK content, but it would be nice to have a clear explanation of what's going on.

So far I see:

Limited Use scheme (discontinued)
Novel Use scheme
the Pilot Project scheme
Newspaper scheme.

Did I miss anything?