His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman is leading a call for writers to be "paid fairly" when their ebooks are borrowed from libraries, after investigations found they may be losing out twice over on digital loans.
Pullman takes over from PD James as president of the Society of Authors in August, and is spearheading the body's campaign on ebook library loans. Not only are authors not paid by the government when their ebooks are borrowed from libraries – they are paid around 6p per loan when physical books are borrowed, but digital titles are not yet part of the agreement – the Society has also found that publishers may inadvertently be underpaying authors for ebook loans, meaning they may be losing up to two-thirds of the income they would have received on the sale and loan of a physical book.
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