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Originally Posted by JeremyR
Then again, I also happen to consider libraries more or less crooked. They're like a double robbery (first, taxes, secondly, authors are having their books read by 1000s without any sort of compensation, beyond selling one book).
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In many countries, there's a concept called the "Public Lending Right", which does pay authors directly according to how many times their books are borrowing from the library. In the UK, for example, an author gets paid about 6p (US 10c) for each loan. However, only EU authors get paid by this programme.