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Shutterstock has officially launched their brand new iPad app. which is available for download now at iTunes.  The application will not only allow you to search images in a mosaic type view, but you will also be able to save them to your account for quick downloads.  Also part of the application is the ability to share via email or social media sites like Twitter.  Check out the write up below from the Shutterstock team.  To sign up for Shutterstock, click here . As head of the Mobile team at Shutterstock, I’m excited to announce Shutterstock for iPad is officially live in the iTunes App store. (You can download it for free, here .) After six months of researching, planning, developing, a nd fine-tuning, we hope customers find this application makes browsing for images a more seamless and beautiful experience than ever. With the simple swipe of the finger, you can: Scroll through thousands of images, seamlessly tiled together in a unique Mosaic View th...

Blurb launches their platform to allow users to publish eBooks that can be downloaded at iTunes.  several photographers and artist have been long waiting for this ability as Blurb is one of the highest quality companies out there.  If you are new to Blurb be sure to check them out for your hard print or digital books.  Below is their write up. Dear Bookmakers, Starting today, the books you've made with Blurb BookSmart® and Blurb Bookify™ are available as  Blurb ebooks . They're gorgeously rendered, full-resolution versions of your books, optimized for the iBooks® app on the iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch®. You order them like any other Blurb book, and we do all the fancy conversion. Here's how you can get started: Sign in and go to " Your Books ." Order the iPad/iPhone version (you'll find this option just above the printed book options on the right side of the screen).  Enter the promo code at checkout.  Download it or send the...

Alamy launched their live new service last month.  Below is a little information about what to expect and how to upload your news worthy images to their site.  Alamy site is located here . Alamy Live News Dear Contributor, Alamy is today launching its Live News service – a revolution in the way Alamy deals with news, sport and entertainment images. For the dedicated photojournalist, the news agency looking to sell into new markets, or the experienced photographer who takes the odd news, sport or entertainment photo, we believe we now have the best service available. And photographers still keep 60 per cent of any news, sport or entertainment images which we sell on their behalf! There are six broad changes we have introduced: • Alamy will now “push” an edited selection of news, sport and entertainment images to its customers directly via FTP. • A fast FTP upload service has been created for committed news photographers and agencies. You can apply for access to the F...

Crestock is boosting royalty rates up to a 40% rate from a 30% rate.  See the chart below to see how things might change for your sales.  Below is the press release directly from the CEO, enjoy. Increasing Royalty Rates & Revenue Channels for Artists To Crestock's Contributing Artists: Since Masterfile Corporation acquired Crestock in July 2010, a lot of changes have taken place. We've added stability to the business and its website, provided you with reliable payments and brought responsive people on board to provide support and answer your questions. But there is still much room for improvement – most importantly in overall sales and the return on investment for you, our contributors. We're working on that too. We're launching two important initiatives that should benefit all of our contributors as outlined below. These changes have been detailed in the revised Crestock Artist Image Upload Agreement . 1. WE ARE INCREASING...

Alamy has started accepting Paypal as form of payment for your royalties.  This is great news for several people who already use the service and this will allow for users to get access to their royalties even faster.  Sign up for Alamy here . Dear Contributor, Good news – we have made some improvements to the way in which we pay our contributors. We are now offering PayPal – we can pay you in GBP, USD or EURO’s via PayPal. If you opt for PayPal we will send your payment so that you do not pay any PayPal fees. If you do not have a PayPal account or would like to know more please see the PayPal website . If you already have a PayPal account and would like to be paid this way please enter your PayPal details by logging into My Alamy , selecting Change your Payment and Tax details and then selecting Change details . To be paid by PayPal in the October payrun you need to update your details by October 2nd. For more information on how we pay you please...

Veer makes good with their contributors after a large outcry on the very low subscription rates they announced in September.  They have gone back to the drawing board and raised the rates to a more industry standard with some extra bonuses compared to the other guys in town.  Below is there full write up on how the royalties brake down for contributors.  Veer Subscription Royalties Update Last week Veer announced its plan to launch a subscription service. Though we expected the response to be positive, we offered contributors the opportunity to opt out of the program if they so desired. The response from contributors has been loud and clear. Obviously we missed the mark. We’ve asked for your feedback and have been listening carefully over the last few days as we went back to the drawing board to revise our royalty model. Two key issues were raised by contributors: 1. Basi...

YayMicro is going through growing pains as it site is back up and running again.  They had to shut down FTP uploading and have had a slower site then normal the last few month.  Traffic has increased 10 fold with more then 650,000 unique visitors.  Below if a formal letter from the CTO of YayMicro talking about the new servers and future improvement that will be coming to the site.  All this is great news and we look forward to the growing success at company.  Sign up for YayMicro here . YES, uploading is now up and running again! :) You can upload by FTP ( ftp.yaymicro.com ) or use the web interface. Recently we have experienced a huge increase in traffic to our site. We had 650.000 unique visitors in August, which is a decuple (yes, its a word and means 10x) since January. In August we also started our corporation with ddp images in Germany which opened our database to huge amount of searches from photo buyers all over Europe. In mid September...