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Originally Posted by HarryT
If you ran a company, you would be allowed to pass the ownership of that company - and the income from it - on to your heirs. Writing a book is just as much work as starting a company. Why should you not be allowed to pass the income from a book on to your heirs?
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The difference here being that the company would probably continue to grow and flourish with a small amount of input from you - a book once written and published is complete!
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Originally Posted by HarryT
...in some countries, authors do get paid for library loans. In the UK there's a central "pot" of money which gets paid to authors each year on the basis of their total number of library loans over the previous year. It's not a fortune, but a popular author can get a couple of thousand £ from it.
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I didn't know that - I always wondered why authors didn't complain about libraries
