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Slide duplication is also too expensive to be a good option to the photographer that submits dozens of sets. There is also the issue that slide duplication does not create as good a quality a slide as the original.
If a set is accepted a magazine company could buy the set outright, although what is more common is that the worldwide print rights are sold for a time period (usually a year) where the images cannot be resold. This is another reason why photographers do not create many duplicates of their work because if they make a sale, they are limited with what they can do with the set. Having duplicates of a set sold outright would be worthless.
Nearly all magazine sets are shot to slide, digital has been tested repeatedly and found to not give as good results as slides. I am sure that this will change but currently our company will only use digital images when the photo we be for a quarter page or less. Anything larger and the images just dont match up to the quality of slides.
LUNA is a good guy, we have dealt with him in the past and will do so in the future. Having his money tied up for so many months is without a doubt very frustrating. That said, the organization and day to day management of incoming submissions for a magazine company that has as many titles as Flynt is more complex than it would appear. Having seen the process firsthand, I do have a measure of sympathy for Hustler as keeping it organized when you have hundreds of new sets in bins waiting for decision, with more arriving via courier every day is no small task.
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