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Nice thread Shap, a jewel in the wasteland of "would you hit it?" threads.
In the last 2-3 years we have seen something disturbing happening in the content business for print. High quality photographers are selling sets to the print business but are retaining electronic rights and are putting the content on the web. So they sell a particular set for $2k to a magazine but then put it on their site, in many cases before the magazine is even published. Then the magazine subscribers write to us and tell us they wish to cancel because they are getting it faster and cheaper on the web.
The photographers are trying to monetize the content in a variety of ways but they are strangling off the print business while they chase their web revenues. I'm not privy to the revenues these photogs are getting from the web, but I can tell you that if the magazines are put out of business by this model and the photogs lose the stable revenue of selling to print this content crisis will only increase. The photographers would have to sell an awful lot of $50-100 web sets to make up the single set purchase price that the print buys at.
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