Making Your Camera Pay

A snapshot of eight pet rabbits, lined up in a row, brought one amateur $300 a year for several years. Frederick C. Davis says the next saleable picture may be closer than you think—not on a distant expedition, but in your own town.

In the age of newspapers, magazines, postcards and illustrated books, thousands of publications needed photographs—and many bought them from amateur camera workers. Davis shows how to spot a subject with news value, make a sharp print with the camera you already own, and find the market that might want it. The rewards can be real, but he promises no easy fortune: a photographer must work quickly, know their equipment and keep looking for pictures others might overlook. What might an editor see in the everyday scenes around you?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.