Fotolia’s P2P Photo Sales ~ Buy and Sell Royalty free stock photos
This New York Based Company, Fotolia.com is great site with a innovative business model for photographers. The Neat layout with use of RSS, Ajax, and tagging gives a great impression to visitors.
It has a ranking system for photographers with a inovative pricing system to incourage users. They can place photos on certain ranges depending on their rank.Prices start at zero and can be as high as $2,000 for an exclusive buyout.
The three types of rights offered are web only, print only, and exclusive buyout. Where the exclusive, as the name suggests can be owned with full rights hence the photo being removed from the website. Main of site is photographers can sell their images directly to consumers, they currently offer only royalty free images.
They also provide a Affiliation system where those people who click on the enclosed link and join will then also become your associates allowing photographers to earn a reward on all their transactions. There also is a promotional code option while registering.
Image previewing with Ajax gives out clean and faster browsing interface, so does the tagging of photos for easier search.They have multi-language support (including blogs in four languages) and RSS for all results pages. About 6 months after the launch Fotolio.com currently have about has 100,000 images online.