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Not sure if this is the right place to post, but...
Last year I finally got organized and made my application to the Canada Council for the Arts Public Lending Rights Program - the system for paying Canadian authors for the books they have in Canadian libraries.
It was a bit of a nuisance to register, but not much - probably took me about an hour, maybe two. Lots of photocopies.
I thought I'd get $10 or something, if I was lucky - but I just got a cheque for $1 710.20! For books I already got royalties on when they were originally sold!
The paperwork shows that they have 7 "test' libraries - as I understand it they keep the actual libraries secret so people don't try to game the system. And then I got a report showing "Times title found out of 7", and for each time a title was found in one of the test libraries, I get $50.30 (at least for books registered between 2012 and 2016 - might be a different rate for older books?). So my two Penguin novels were in all seven libraries and I got $352.10 for each of them. Lovely - I'd expected those ones to be in libraries, maybe, but I hadn't realized the payout would be so high per book! And I have a novel from Riptide that was in 5 libraries, a novel from Dreamspinner that was in 3 libraries, and a lot of other novels from Dreamspinner that were in one library out of the seven. So I get $50.30 for each of those novels, AND if they're still there next year I'll get paid for them again!
Definitely worth the trouble for Canadian authors - it's essentially found money, right?
So, do the paperwork, Canadians! You can find it at http://www.plr-dpp.ca/PLR/registration/new_registrants.aspx
Now I'm off to decide how to spend my windfall!
Last year I finally got organized and made my application to the Canada Council for the Arts Public Lending Rights Program - the system for paying Canadian authors for the books they have in Canadian libraries.
It was a bit of a nuisance to register, but not much - probably took me about an hour, maybe two. Lots of photocopies.
I thought I'd get $10 or something, if I was lucky - but I just got a cheque for $1 710.20! For books I already got royalties on when they were originally sold!
The paperwork shows that they have 7 "test' libraries - as I understand it they keep the actual libraries secret so people don't try to game the system. And then I got a report showing "Times title found out of 7", and for each time a title was found in one of the test libraries, I get $50.30 (at least for books registered between 2012 and 2016 - might be a different rate for older books?). So my two Penguin novels were in all seven libraries and I got $352.10 for each of them. Lovely - I'd expected those ones to be in libraries, maybe, but I hadn't realized the payout would be so high per book! And I have a novel from Riptide that was in 5 libraries, a novel from Dreamspinner that was in 3 libraries, and a lot of other novels from Dreamspinner that were in one library out of the seven. So I get $50.30 for each of those novels, AND if they're still there next year I'll get paid for them again!
Definitely worth the trouble for Canadian authors - it's essentially found money, right?
So, do the paperwork, Canadians! You can find it at http://www.plr-dpp.ca/PLR/registration/new_registrants.aspx
Now I'm off to decide how to spend my windfall!
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