[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Hi All,

I thought I would ask the learned community of a dilemma of mine, a friend has expressed interest in using one of my astro images (such as they are) as artwork for a published work and has offered me author credit for the image and/or payment for the use of it.

Now the problems are:

1) I don't know if his product will sell $100 worth or $1M and if I give away my image to use, and with no intention of setting up a web shop or selling other images at this stage, I might miss the boat and end up with nothing.
2) While this came out of the blue and I have never thought of it before as a potential income stream, my instinct is simply to say, sure, feel free to use it as long as you credit me as the image author. BUT, am I silly to do this if my supply of an image for commercial gain is worth something to me?
3) If I decide to sell one or more images, how much should I charge? My shots are only smallish around 1.4MP so they couldn't be considered hi-res, and really don't know what the going rate is?

Anyone have any thoughts on this please?

Cheers

Chris