royalties For years, the norm has been that each stock photo agency has had many regional subagents, paying photographers 25-30% of sales. Recently, technology has lowered distribution costs, making it all too easy to have subagents of subagents, leaving as little as 12% (or even worse for royalty-free) for the image creator. The "thinking out of the box" solution is to eliminate the middle percentage and forbid sub-subagents. This effectively turns every stock agency into a direct relationship to the photographer, money-wise. no better deal exists, period See for yourself