A Story Out Of OZ says The Australian Federal Government paid $14.2 million to 8500 Australian authors and publishers last year to compensate for people borrowing their books from public libraries and in schools.
Without extra income from government schemes, an author said many would-be Australian authors would be forced to give up.
“There are 260 million people in the US, 67 million in the UK, so it’s much harder to make a living from people in Australia,” he said.
“If the Australian authors go, then our own culture gets ignored.”
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