Ahem - $12.9 million for lending rights to cover ebooks and audio books.

Excuse me while I got dance on some tables :) YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEE Hige thanks to the authors, librarians and others who joined us on this journey

https://www.alia.org.au/Web/News/Articles/2023/1-January-2023/ALIA-Blog-Digital-Lending-Rights-a-quick-explainer.aspx

#LendingRights #PLR #ELR #Libraries #Library #LIS #ebooks A#audiobooks #Reading #OzLit #LoveOzYA #Books #Bookstodon

Ahem - $12.9 million for lending rights to cover evooks and audio books.

Excuse me while I got dance on some tables :) YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEE Hige thanks to the authors, librarians and others who joined us on this journey

https://www.alia.org.au/Web/News/Articles/2023/1-January-2023/ALIA-Blog-Digital-Lending-Rights-a-quick-explainer.aspx

#LendingRights #PLR #ELR #Libraries #Library #LIS #ebooks A#audiobooks #Reading #OzLit #LoveOzYA #Books #Bookstodon

@danmac oh, yes, I love Borrow Box! I’m a little embarrassed to say I haven’t actually physically visited my local library in the past 18 months.
I really wish our government would do something about changing the way authors are compensated for ebooks- the current #LendingRights #royalties scheme does not take #ebooks (or #Audiobooks, I think?) into account at all well, only physical books, and that not much.

The way we #read has changed. I read around 150 books a year, and less than a third of those this year were physical books - those were mostly re-reads of books I owned.