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Authors face royalty threat from volunteer libraries

July 23, 2012 - 5:51pm — Bibliofuture

In the UK libraries pay into a fund to pay authors for borrowed books. This is called a Public Lending Right. Volunteer libraries that are springing up to fill the place of government run libraries do not have to pay the PLR fee. Authors are not happy.

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July 24, 2012 - 1:43am — manamda

Great News.

I Think authors will be disagree with such kind of behavior .

Trekkie

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