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Originally Posted by reader22
This scheme only applies in certain countries - the UK being one. In other countries like the US for instance there is no such scheme. So there is no compensation to authors for when you borrow a book. So it is exactly the same as downloading.
Also it is not strictly true to say that if you borrow a book the money a payment goes to the author. If you borrow a book in one of the monitored libraries (a handful of the total number in the UK) then a payment goes to the author up to a maximum of £6000. Other countries handle their systems differently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right |
The issues also ties with the problem of paying libraries, which is in some countries a very uncommon practice; some, in my country, contest this kind of mechanism because free access to cultural resources is a right granted in the Constitution (I'm personally ok with a una-tantum contribution...).
Has anyone thought about buying by proxy? Meaning: A sets up an e-mail account (plenty to choose from as for the provider), B in country C agrees to buy books and financial questions are handled by means of paypal or even by barter (B sets up an e-mail account and A buys books through that). I know it's not very regular and it's rather complicate as for timing, but still, you can't let them beat us.