I love books and magazines and anything with words and images, but the economics of print are starting to fail big time. That doesn’t mean print is dead though…it’s just evolving.
So buck up, people. There will always be a need for images, even when they no longer appear on paper.
One more very interesting article, as usual, Leslie. Thanks for this one too!
It’s also something for us to be even more concerned about copyright registration. It’s a matter of time when Kindle and their future cousins will be a piece of a thin material you fold in 4 pieces and store it in your shirt pocket. The images will be stunningly bright and beautiful, in full color, and LOW RES too. Hmm. So anything we see today online, featuring 72 dpi, WILL have a much greater value than today, since we need 300 dpi for print. Therefore, there will be a lot more copying, downloading, linking or whatever form of duplicating what belongs to us without any written consent or form of compensation.
Adapting, evolving, planning. Those verbs are taking more of my time than ever before. And that’s not necessarily bad. 🙂
Ana
I’d agree with you that the e-readers are the wave of the future but what does it mean for all of us out-of-work newspaper freelance photographers. Sure the pay wasn’t that good but the subject matter was fun and interesting.
The text will be there nice and sharp and maybe during the first 10 generations of e-readers some half-tone B/W image? Has the day of the great news photographers like Crowely, Guzy, Burnett to name a few just doing the way of film? Should it fall to G-G-G-Getty – grrr?
Too many questions I know. Crystal Ball time.
If you haven’t read Vincent Laforet’s “The cloud is falling” yet, I highly suggest it. You should be able to Google it, or find it on his website.