5.9p per loan aggregated over millions of loaned books a year is a sizable chunk of change £7.6 million according to the article. (interesting to note that as

5.9p per loan aggregated over millions of loaned books a year is a sizable chunk of change £7.6 million according to the article. (interesting to note that as the U.S. is not a member of the PLR club, American authors will get none of it) By comparison the British Library (the UK's biggest public library)'s budget is £142million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library