Authors paid an average of €32 for borrowed library books

Authors receive an average payment of just under €32 per year for having their books borrowed from public libraries in Ireland.

Authors receive an average payment of just under €32 per year for having their books borrowed from public libraries in Ireland.

New figures published by the Local Government Management Agency, which oversees the payment scheme in the Republic, shows a total of €200,317 was paid out to writers, illustrators and translators in return for the lending rights of their books by libraries in 2020.