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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
The problem with instituting PLR in the US is that it would benefit bestselling authors while causing libraries not to carry less popular authors (because the PLR payments would come from the same funds used to buy books). This is not the result anyone wants - and as my library alone purchased over 300 hardbacks of the new Tom Clancy, I don't think that many people feel that he's hurting so badly from library lending that we should pay him more and not buy, say, 20 books from lesser known authors.
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That's why PLR payments are capped; there's a maximum payment to even the most popular of authors. The beauty of PLR is that (in the UK at least) the money goes directly to the author, not to the publisher.
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In all but a few countries with PLR, the payment doesn't go to *any* author whose book is borrowed, but only to those authors with the correct nationality or who write the appropriate language.
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True.