A new online stock image library service offers for the first time great options for both small business buyers and to would-be pro-photographers wanting to sell their best digital photographs online.

While traditional stock image libraries have a tradition of being very corporate, top-down, targeted at advertising agencies and big companies, the new outfit I am presenting today springs from a truly grassroots initiative, The StockXchange, and leverages the opening opportunity for small publishers and independent photographers to start having their own, quality, non-corporate visual marketplace.

That doesn’t mean that the images made available are hippy-fazed, out of focus, psychedelic abstract shots. Quite the opposite. At the new StockXpert site, you can find quality royalty-free images that look as good or better than the ones that you can get at more popular image libraries online, at a very accessible cost ($1-4 each) while getting them from an exploding army of new independent photographers.

If you are one, you need to go check out The StockXpert.

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