Just a quick announcement that the prices at ClassyArts.com have been changed — subscription prices remain the same, but you now get TEN TIMES as much data for that same old price. One-time project prices have been changed from one credit per dollar to ten credits per dollar (still a $5 minimum order — any less is not worth processing after PayPal fees).
Subscriptions
Subscribers now get 250 credit for $9 per month, and premium subscribers 1000 credits for $18 per month. Remember, each credit buys one record from the photographer’s database (or one record from the Artists database when that goes on-line, very soon!), and photographs are five credits.
That works out to:
- 10 cents per credit for one-time projects
- 3.6 cents per credit for budget monthly subscribers
- 3.0 cents per credit for budget annual subscribers
- 1.8 cents per credit for premium monthly subscribers
- 1.5 cents per credit for premium annual subscribers
Local Photographers Data eBook
Or, for those who want a lot of data but don’t want to subscribe, we have location-based ebooks of photographer data. (See the small sample issue). Those used to cost $3.95 plus 2 cents per photographer’s record — now they are just $4.95 plus 1/2 cent per record. So a book with 1000 records, that used to cost $23.95 is reduced to just $9.95.
Confession
So why the sudden price reduction? This information is valuable — why the bargain prices? Well, honestly now, the sad fact is that we never sold many ebooks nor had many subscribers at the old rates. Maybe that is due to the sad state of the economy. If this site is to survive we need to do better.
That is why the amount of data per dollar has been greatly increased. That is also why the artists database will be combined with this data, rather than continue to sell as a separate product (though that sold very well on its own, it needs updating and expansion). And that is also why ClassyArts subscribers will have access to our new Photo-Dating sub-site, which we plan to put online before the end of January — for subscribers only.
