Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Re: [applekeynote] New Image Resource Coming!

WOW! How incredible! Combined with Instant Alpha, that's a GOLD mine
of good art ideas.

On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:52 PM, John Driedger wrote:

> Make sure you keep an eye on Life.com
>
> Nothing is happening on the site yet but I guess soon.
>
> Google is going to offer the Life Magazine archive for FREE (with
> ongoing new photos).
>
> I assume if you want to use them for commercial purposes they will be
> happy to charge you a few bucks.
> The days of the gouging stock photo companies is soon over. Getty!
> Bwaaahahaaaa.
>
> Isn't it nice that a company like Google uses some of it's profits to
> buy an asset like
> the Life archive and instead of hording it and charging hundreds per
> image (old school) they think of a new model of doing business.
> One where it's free for most folks and affordable when you do want to
> use it for professional use.
> The volume of use due to affordability makes them the $.
> Genius!
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/18/google-life-magazine-
> photographs-images
>
>
>


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