LIBRARY ROYALTIES
P.E.N. advocate legislation <N.Z. Press Association? PALMERSTON NORTH, August 31. Most New Zealand writers are in desperate financial straits according to lan Cross, one of the country's bestknown journalists and novelists. He urged writers who attended a conference at Massey University to support a suggestion from the Poets’, Essayists’ and Novelists Organisation for library-lending royalities for authors. He said libraries gave no financial return to the author, despite the fact that one out of every 20 library books in New Zealand was written by a living New Zealander. If an annual shelf fee of 50c a book were introduced, this would bring in $200,000. Mr Cross said that the money should come from the State, and P.E.N. had approached the Government to introduce legislation.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32700, 1 September 1971, Page 21
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