Tuesday, November 22, 2005

"Old media" copy Internet trends. In Germany, for example, magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr just launched View -- a monthly print photo magazine that also intends to establish an online photo community: Users can publish photos, rate those of others and comment on them. The editors of the print magazine each month pick some user contributions and publish them in print.

View is in it's infancy. And if you look at the functionality available by now, it's by far a Flickr clone. However, more than 1,000 users already have signed up. That's much fewer than the 230,000 Fotocommunity.de has, but this independent site has been online since about five years. Among the most active users of View's Web site are quite a few members of Fotocommunity. So what's their motivation? Is it still that facinating to imagine one's artwork being published in print? And will photographers continue not only to contribute their work for free but even pay to participate, as View imagines (it plans to charge for uploads starting in February)?
E-mail this item | Add Your Comments | QuickLink this item: A92570



E-Media Tidbits Archive

View items published between:		and
	(MM/DD/YYYY)		(MM/DD/YYYY)

MAIN | Back to Top