stories of cuts and publishing

[PLR is the Public Lending Right, a fund to compensate authors for library borrowings, and of particuar value to new authors establishing themselves. The two stories together give a measure of what cuts mean to publishing via the front door - the back door of buyers holding back are additional. Things to take account of; cuts, announced or not, and lowered spending, are happeneing everywhere.]
PLR gets off 'Lightly'
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/29922
http://alangibbons.net/?p=1480
'...The PLR budget is to be reduced by 7% over the next four years as part of the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review....it would not be extending PLR at this time to ebooks and audio books as enabled by the Digital Economy Act earlier in the year....'

Arts Council Cuts Threaten Independent Publishers
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/29920

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/21/arts-council-cuts-threaten-publishers
'...the swingeing 29.6% cut to its budget ...'
'... the cuts would "inevitably have a significant impact on the cultural life of the country"....'
'... "Small sums of public money make a big difference. We translate literary fiction which otherwise wouldn't get to this country; we take risks. There has to be some space to supplement what the market can produce."...'




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