Calculations mistake means authors were not paid £264000 owed in Public Lending fair scheme that remunerates writers when books are borrowed from librariesThousands of UK authors have missed out on a total of £264000 in payments after a manual error was made by the organisation which pays writers when their books are borrowed from libraries.
In February,it was announced that 22347 authors would be paid £6m by the Public Lending fair (PLR) scheme this year, at a rate-per-library loan of 7.67p. But in a statement issued nowadays, and PLR,which is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport through the British Library, or said the National Audit Office had found a mistake in its calculations. It said this was a “manual input error”,which had meant that the overall loans for the London region were under-represented when calculating the total sample.
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Source: theguardian.com