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(I edited this to sound more pessimistic than before...):

To summarize:
- Alamy's percentage for direct sales and for distributor sales will
rise by 5%
- An end to bank transfer fees
- No more cheque fees
- No charges on foreign exchange fees for payments

more info:
http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2008/09/24/3563.aspx

Sorry guys but you misread the news:

Alamy will increase it's OWN commission by 5% to support the opening cost of new offices in US and hopefully grow their market share there.
That means our commission will decrease by 5%, from 65% to 60%, but more sales in US will hopefully compensate for that.  This has been discussed in their blog.

-Chris

oh I jumped the gun,or I was being too optimist
but like you mention if they bring in more  sales from the US that'd compassionate it  and  despite the lower cut they are still the ones that offer the fairest  percentage  among the agencies that I am with. But thank so for the heads up:)
 

Company expansion at the expense of contributors?! Seems like a strange business model to me.