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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



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