Dunns were very impressed, and they took on distribution of it too!  I was really honoured when later they chose me to do some promotional pictures for them, as a top well-established film processing place, they had numerous other professional photographers as clients, yet they came to me. 

I did a deal with a Chinese distributor he paid me up-front 1,000 pounds plus an agreed royalty payment of one pound for each book sold, but I did not think I would ever see any royalty payments!  This was for permission to publish 'PhotoBackings 100' in print, all the background images were printed A3 size as high-definition prints, in a hardbound cover for the Chinese market. 

Apparently, most of the Chinese were not able to use CD-ROMs.  I duly received a few complimentary copies and after a year, to my surprise, he sent me 1,500 pounds more as royalty fees.  jncohen.net/photostock


The Cohen Collection

I then decided that I could also publish our collection 'The Cohen Collection' of Asian antiques on a CD-ROM, to do this I set about persuading Neil K. Davey of Sothebys (I knew Neil well and we agreed a fee) to provide me with catalogue style descriptions of each Japanese piece and he also kindly wrote an introduction for the Japanese part of the collection too. 

The Cohen Collection CD-Rom

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