LicenseStream spans “America”
Joseph Sohms’ “Visions of America” won the Gold medal for “Best Coffee Table Book at the 13th annual Independent Publishing Awards. The photographer is now licensing those images — and his entire portfolio — with LicenseStream, developer ImageSpan announced.
“ImageSpans LicenseStream empowers me to publish all of my photographs directly to my Web site and to global search engines,” Sohm says, “so that anyone in the world may find my search-optimized photos online and pay for them with a mouse click. By enabling me to reach image buyers more quickly and with many more choices than theyd get through a typical agency, LicenseStream helps me speed the pace of transactions and drive incremental revenues.”
LicenseStream allows him to make his entire catalog available online for licensing — not just the hits. Sohm had been able to offer only a subset of his images through stock agencies, which he says operate on the premise that a core set of images typically attract customers repeatedly.
Also, the web-based system allows content creators to keep a much larger share of the royalties for each transaction — multiple times the 20 percent royalty fee offered by most major agencies.
The book, “Visions of America: Photographing Democracy,” is a portrait of life in the American democracy via a photographic journey across 50 states. It has a companion multi-media Photo Symphony version, narrated by Clint Eastwood.
ImageSpan offers a special rate for PMA members.
