Similar to the deal the german portal Fotofinder had closed with FreeLens (Association of Photojournalists) ages ago to provide to the members of FreeLens a more or less advanced photo portal technology, the ASMP has arranged
with IPNStock, a photographer-friendly stock-photo portal, to develop a customized portal system for ASMP. The system will make it easy for you to display your stock photos to prospective buyers via the Internet and, at your option, to use its e-commerce functions to collect payment and deliver the image. At all times, you will have control of your images: license terms, pricing, quality and relationship with the customer.
The improved service update -- currently running under the domain FindAPhotograph.org -- includes a Basic service and a Select service; the latter
allows more images and supports real e-commerce. The cost is higher: the $50 one-time ASMP setup fee, plus an IPNStock service fee of $175 a year. In addition, IPNStock will charge a processing fee of 20% on each sale that is made through the e-commerce system.
The new system will include a "customizable price calculator", but photographers will only be able to upload "200 full-resolution pictures". More here: "New Capabilities for ASMP’s Find A Photograph Service" and in "Frequently asked questions about the Find A Photograph portal".
This is of course the future trend: photographers who are members of any specific umbrella organisation or professional association soon won´t be in need of entering any of the photographer portals or ASP-providers out there -- simply because their professional association provides them with the same service, either included in the association´s membership fee or at strongly reduced costs.
The competitor of IPNStock, Digital Railroad, established similar partnerships with Editorial Photographers, the Stock Artists Alliance and Advertising Photographers of America.
[Update. BTW there is a related article at Stock Asylum: "ASMP investigates Mira..."]
