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Originally Posted by pwalker8
If you are a library patron and only get your books there, then you do not carry an author, unless of course you belong to a private library that is subscription based.
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Or if you live in a country (such as the UK), where authors
are paid when their books are borrowed from the library. It isn't a huge amount (8.52p per borrow at the moment), but it is something, and it goes directly to the author, not the publisher.
I would imagine that particularly for authors children's books, this could add up to a noticeable amount. (Capped at £6,600 per year, just under 300 authors were paid this last year.)