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Do you have audio and eBook formats of your work?

Are these digital files available for loan in public lending libraries?

Do you currently receive any compensation on library users borrowing the digital copies of your books?

Get the downlow on Digital Lending Rights (DLR) with The HYBRID Author podcast host Joanne Morrell, author of children's and young adult fiction and short non fiction for authors.

Listen in as Joanne shares

 

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheHYBRIDAuthor

https://www.asauthors.org/campaigns/digital-lending-right/digital-lending-right

You can also write to your local MP to request the expansion of the lending right schemes. You can use our sample letter here

https://www.janefriedman.com/what-do-authors-earn-from-digital-lending-at-libraries/

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/it-buys-me-writing-time-authors-call-for-library-ebook-compensation-20211118-p59a1s.html

https://www.asauthors.org/news/asa-warns-government-sustainability-of-australian-writing-careers-under-threat

https://www.asauthors.org/news/asa-calls-for-dlr-at-public-hearing-for-federal-inquiry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDry7TfR0yw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RVrTg3eB-A

https://www.arts.gov.au/sites/default/files/submissions/ncp1035-australian-society-of-authors.pdf