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Almost every country in the world apart from the US pays authors for library lending.
by Mindwipe 1y ago
Almost every country in the world apart from the US pays authors for library lending.
- morsch 1y agoI wasn't sure how it works where I live, so I looked it up and apparently in Germany (according to Wikipedia) public libraries pay 3-4c per checkout to a central private body which redistributes it somehow. So unless the book is checked out a thousand times over and its lifetime, buying it still dominates overall.
- layer8 1y agoThe libraries also bought the book originally.