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Originally Posted by HarryT
In the UK, there's a "pot" of money that gets dished out to authors on the basis of the statistics of the number of loans of their books throughout the whole country over the course of a year. A good friend of mine. the British SF author Bob Shaw, now sadly deceased, used to get a couple of thousand pounds a year that way. Not a fortune, but not a trivial amount either.
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Bob Shaw? I think I have only read two of his books, 'Who Goes Here?' and 'A Wreath of Stars', but I love them.
Now that I have the Reader, I intend to read 'The Ragged Astronauts'.
Sad to read he died, I really liked his writing.