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Novel Use announcement

Comments (79)10 June 2008 at 11:35 by James West - CEO
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An opt out has been made available for Novel Use. The opportunity to opt out will be available for two weeks from today. I apologise unreservedly to those of you who feel you have been misled. This was never my intention and it is not the Alamy way of doing things. More...

Launch of Limited Use – the first of our Novel Use initiatives

Comments (153)5 June 2008 at 10:33 by James West - CEO
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We are delighted to announce that Limited Use, the first initiative to be released under our Novel Use scheme is ready for launch. More...

AlamyMeasures (beta) - follow up note 1

Comments (27)6 December 2007 at 09:14 by James West - CEO
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Thank you for all of your comments and suggestions on the blog and forum pages. This has been very helpful in enabling us to understand what you would like to see done differently. The good news is that there seems to be quite a lot of consensus about what the key issues are. More...

AlamyMeasures (beta) is live!

Comments (60)26 November 2007 at 15:43 by James West - CEO
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AlamyMeasures (beta) now live. New tool from Alamy to help contributors review their customer view and zoom activity. More...

10 Million pictures on Alamy!

Comments (76)8 October 2007 at 10:00 by James West - CEO
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Many thanks to all of our contributing photographers and photo agencies for helping us reach this exciting milestone. To mark the occasion we are giving an extra 10% commission to our contributors for any sales they make today. More...

Novel Use Scheme – money from unusual places...

Comments (139)19 September 2007 at 13:42 by James West - CEO
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Alamy is often approached by organisations requesting licences that fall outside of our standard price model. More...

Pricing - the Alamy way

Comments (48)17 September 2007 at 12:44 by James West - CEO
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As a general trend, prices across our industry are falling and appear set to continue to do so. More...

Keywording for the future

Comments (45)19 June 2007 at 14:23 by James West - CEO
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This article introduces some of the initiatives we are working on to improve the speed and quality of the search experience for the customer and to help our contributors compete. More...

Do something...

Comments (56)2 February 2007 at 12:42 by James West - CEO
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Like many others I have been thinking about how to reduce my domestic greenhouse gas emissions. Here are some of the things I have tried (in vague order of effort required). I’d be interested to hear your comments and any stories from your own experiences. More...

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