Online Clearinghouse for Digital Content?
g8orade asks: "I belong to Photo.net, a community photography site that promotes exchange among 'serious-minded' (sometimes) photographers. A key facet is that members review and rank others' photos and can then search for the best, worst, most viewed, by topic, etc. There are plenty of other sites like this, Slashdot itself relies on users' contributions for its content. Is anyone a member of a community, database driven site like this that -also- acts as a catalog, allowing members to sell their digital content at prices set by them or the site, paid up front--not after the fact like shareware, with a cut of the transaction going to the site's hosters?"
"Compared to eBay, here are some key differences:
- It's your own content, or it must be content for which you own the copyright.
- The rankings apply to the content, not the reseller's karma.
- There's no limit on the product; it's digital.
- It might be fixed price per copy, not an auction."
I "dabble" with my little digital camera at DeviantArt.com (http://wiwijumbo.deviantart.com) but they have also started a new service DAPrints (http://www.daprints.com) which allows you to sell your artwork (not just photos), anything from, if I remember correctly, a poster to a postcard.
:)
Not that I'd bother with that with *my* shots.
Wiwi
"I trust in my abilities,
but I want more then they offer"