Unfortunately I think you are right when you say it may take a new player. I am looking for them. Maybe the CIS systems is the new player that may make a difference. Time will tell.
>>>Wouldn't competitive pressures force those who wanted to get higher prices to improve their work?
Yes, but also to improve the sales methods, and I think this list is evidence that there is such a movement, or at least a whish. So far almost all of us have been working as one man bands, lone wolves, in a garage, so o say, and at the same time fighting each other as well.
Look at hyped up Apple. Privately censored content, pay for everything nearly, four times the price, censored apps, and they are still selling very well.
I think we have something to learn as a group. I still don't think stock photography has played out its role, but I think the classical sales model is obsolete. Back to Apple, The have always been more restrictive, more expensive, but always, until recently, had better quality than their competitor. That is what sell the product.
On 24-Dec-2010 10:35 AM, Brian Yarvin wrote:
> If we all were to cut them off by buying competitive CISS ink, they will
> be forced to develop printers we need, instead of printers they need.
Rolf:
Have you considered this; what if a large group of people started selling stock photos for a
dollar or two each? Wouldn't competitive pressures force those who wanted to get higher
prices to improve their work?
It hasn't really happened in either case.
The reaction of the printer manufacturers to CIS is the same as the reaction of old-school
stock photographers to their newfangled competitors; they hurl insults, they try to scare you,
but they don't really change their way of working.
It will take a new player in the market to change things.
Brian Yarvin
Author, Educator, Photographer
http://www.brianyarvin.com
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