[Leica] re: publishing fees

[Robert Monaghan <rmonagha@post.cis.smu.edu>]

Here is a quote from Michael Busselle, a noted author of 34 photobooks 
on photography (one of which sold 500,000+ copies), travel, wine and so on:

quote:
The way things stand in the publishing industry, there's absolutely no 
way I could make a living from producing books - and I've done more than 
30. It just doesn't pay enough. In fact, I would say that every book I 
produce now is done so at a loss to me financially. But the way I see it 
is I can make a lot more money from those pictures once the book is 
finished by selling them through my stock library - Tony Stone - and from 
my own picture library which I run from home. One picture sold through a 
stock library paid me more than the whole book did". [from p. 94-5, 
Taking Pictures for Profit by Lee Frost, David and Charles Publ., Devon 
UK 1996.]