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Originally Posted by Moejoe
And if you look at the statistics on those particular payments most authors actually receive something around 99p per year for the actual loans. It's the big boys like King or Rowling who get the profits, not the small authors. (I'll try to find the article that I read on this a couple of days ago).
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With the greatest respect, you asked "how does borrowing from a library differ" and I answered you. The payment under the "Public Lending Right" scheme is, to be specific, 5.98p every time a book is borrowed, up to a maximum of £6,600 a year. An author receives the payment if their payment is £1 or more - ie corresponding to a minimum of 17 check-outs across the entire UK library system in a year; this payment forms an extremely important element of income for many authors, because it goes directly to them, not to their publisher or agents. I repeat the question: you claim that "there is no difference" between illegally downloading a book and borrowing it from a library. How does the author get their 5.98p if you illegally download a book?