PhotoDune - which license?

I’m looking for a photo to use as the cover for my Kindle book, but I’m not sure which license I would require for that.

commercial

ok thanks. Not so bad, still a good price

Cheapest cover you’ll ever buy!

Definitely, and there will be many more books to come, I just have to write them

Why do people always call it “Commercial”, when the word is “Extended Licence”?

Anyway, are you sure? Using it as a bookcover, isn’t the same as using it on a t-shirt for instance. On a t-shirt, you are buying the t-shirt for what’s on it, aka the item you bought. But on a book, you aren’t buying the cover so to speak, you are buying the contents. It’s a bit like a website, you wouldn’t get an extended licence for a website just because more than one person is visiting it.

For a book cover, I would have honestly thought the regular licence would be fine. Now obviously I could be wrong, but just stating my thoughts here

The fact that it’s electronic could have something to do with it, but since it’s (I presume) not in a format where you’d be able to cut out the picture itself and reuse it somewhere else, I don’t see the relevance.

A cover I would consider more in the “advertising” end of uses (which is a regular licence), than the “resale” use (which is the extended licence).

My use of the cover would be the first page of the Kindle book itself and the image shown on Amazon.co.uk/Amazon.com on the item page/search results.

I think that this is worth looking at and explained on the license, as the Kindle makes it so much easier now for writers to get their book out to the masses.

I run a writers website, and the number of good writers out there who are self-publishing is growing all the time. In fact, 2010 marked the year when more ebooks were sold by Amazon than ‘traditional’ books, and I would guess that this will grow exponentially every year.

Zeplix said
Why do people always call it “Commercial”, when the word is “Extended Licence”?

Anyway, are you sure? Using it as a bookcover, isn’t the same as using it on a t-shirt for instance. On a t-shirt, you are buying the t-shirt for what’s on it, aka the item you bought. But on a book, you aren’t buying the cover so to speak, you are buying the contents. It’s a bit like a website, you wouldn’t get an extended licence for a website just because more than one person is visiting it.

For a book cover, I would have honestly thought the regular licence would be fine. Now obviously I could be wrong, but just stating my thoughts here

The fact that it’s electronic could have something to do with it, but since it’s (I presume) not in a format where you’d be able to cut out the picture itself and reuse it somewhere else, I don’t see the relevance.

A cover I would consider more in the “advertising” end of uses (which is a regular licence), than the “resale” use (which is the extended licence).

No Zeplix; If you were selling a theme you couldn’t include the image because whether or not the intention is to sell the theme you’re still giving the user the image. I could be wrong, but for the price of less than $20, it’s worth it either way.

So, if I want to use an image in flyer design and include photo, would “extended” photodune license suffice? Then I could sell entire flyer .psd with photo included? Or if I want to just use it in preview, would “standard” license be enough?

That said, when Photodune will open to general audience, otherwise it’s a moot point.