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Future of UK PLR office in question

Public consultation is to take place in the United Kingdom on the future of the Public Lending Right system whereby authors are paid for the borrowing of their books from public libraries.

Writers based in other EU countries benefit from borrowings of their work in Britain.

The Public Bodies Act, which gives the British government powers to abolish the PLR office and transfer the management of PLR to another public body, became law on December 14, 2011.

Under the Act the next step in the process is for the government to undertake a public consultation on the future management of PLR.

This is likely to get under way early in the New Year, according to the PLR office.

Meanwhile, it remains business as usual at the PLR office as it prepares for the next payment distribution to authors, in February 2012.

For which many thanks, say the receiving writers.

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