2006-12-28 22:41:35 · 7 answers · asked by gorgeousfluffpot 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Hi there
Your answerers are seizing on the word 'royalties' and confusing your query with royalties received from your publisher based on your book sales.
What you're asking about is Public Lending Rights. PLR is a government funded scheme that pays authors around 5½ pence each time their books are loaned out. They don't count every single loan from every library in the country, of course; the scheme is based on samples from selected public libraries. A different set of libraries is chosen each year, and authors are not told in advance which libraries they are, to prevent manipulation of the service! Payment is made each February.
PLR is not an automatic service - to qualify, authors must register their published books, with their ISBN numbers, with Public Lending Right before the end of June each year.
To find out more about PLR, their website is www.plr.uk.com
Hope this helps. I have 30 books registered for PLR.
Regards
Peggy
2006-12-28 23:15:32 · answer #1 · answered by Songbird 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
An author does get a small amount of royalties from the public library system in the UK. It is limited up to about £3000.00 (I think) for the authors of the most popular books, with the average payment being a couple of hundred pounds. This is payed annually.
2006-12-29 06:52:52 · answer #2 · answered by 13caesars 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there are no royalties from public libraries.
You get royalties depending on your contract with your publisher.
Most of the time it is based on the number of books sold.
Yes you would get a royalty from the sale of the book to the library. The royalty per book is VERY low. Unless you are a high priced author or your book sells millions of copies you will not get rich from royalties.
2006-12-29 06:46:28 · answer #3 · answered by alanpks4 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Authors are divided into leagues, according to how many times their books are borrowed. Authors in the "A" league are paid a certain fixed amount per annum, which is more than than those in the "B" league, and so on.
2006-12-29 06:53:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
contract with a service called plr they get paid an average, similar to musicians they get paid alledgedly by prs based on again the average. LF
2006-12-29 09:58:16 · answer #5 · answered by lefang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but wouldn't that be nice? They only receive royalties on the individual books sold.
2006-12-29 06:44:56 · answer #6 · answered by Tater 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No-ho-ho
Royalties are paid based on every book that have been sold
2006-12-29 06:54:47 · answer #7 · answered by rmluqman86 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋