Re[4]: [Leica] Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:36:59 -0500

[Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil]

     Eric,
     
     Perhaps you're right.  I'm not in the publishing industry.  Everyone 
     values everything differently, and supplies and demands in different 
     markets differ too.  Perhaps to a publisher the written word is more 
     valuable than a photograph.  It just seemed to me that that's for the 
     publisher to decide and that his decision presumably would be based on 
     the perceived supply and demand in that market and need not be taken 
     as "denigrating" what the photographer does.
     
     I agree it would be rude of you to get upset with the bookkeeper; but 
     if tax software now costs $29, then to offer the bookkeeper $29 to do 
     taxes is not to denigrate what he does; rather it simply reflects the 
     changed market.
     
     :)
     
     Art Peterson
     

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Subject: Re[3]: [Leica] Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:36:59 -0500
Author:  leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at Internet
Date:    2/22/99 3:32 PM


At 03:12 PM 2/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>   No, I must say I don't think it would be rude.  If you can't afford to
>     pay the guy to do your taxes, then you can't afford it; and yet if you 
>     still need to have someone do your taxes, then you still need it.  And
     
I do believe it would be rude for me to get upset when the guy names a 
price and I though implication say, "Well, I can buy a program that will do 
my taxes for $29 (actually, I just did that, without asking him) why can't 
you do it for that?"
     
Doesn't that sound insulting? If not, then you are just not seeing it from 
our perspective in the publishing industry, where photographers are 
reminded day by day that our work isn't as valuable as the written word.
     
Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
     
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