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Originally Posted by chalkie7
2) several of these shots appeared on social networking sites within hours without my consent!
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I keep finding new ways to say this, but I still think it needs to be kept in mind. Department and grocery stores have a concept called "shrinkage" used to account for theft, spoilage, breakage and other things that accounts for the difference between items brought into the store and items actually sold. Their profit margins account for this. Likewise, photographers are going to have a certain amount of their pictures that are valuable enough for people to want to share, but not so much they'd actually order a print. The sitting fee or digital media/view fee needs to be enough to account for this and still make a profit.
I still firmly believe we're going to, in the near future, have a large swing back toward having sitting fees, processing fees, and very few packages of prints actually sold.