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Originally Posted by Xenophon
@HarryT: I fear that your US readers may not understand about the UK's "public lending right" system. For those not in the know, here goes: In the UK and some other countries, libraries pay a per-checkout fee into a common pool of money. They also track which books are checked out. The pool is divided up periodically (prorated by number of checkouts), and money is paid to the copyright holders. Said money is capped at a maximum of XXX pounds. I don't know whether non-UK authors get anything from this pool.
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Xenophon - Non-UK authors do indeed get paid from the PLR. In fact the most borrowed author from UK libraries last year - and a recipient of approx $10,000 from the PLR - was the American thriller writter James Patterson.