Australian book publishers or creators—authors, illustrators, editors, translators and compilers—can be compensated for the loss of income through the free multiple use of their work in Australian public and educational lending libraries.
The Government is providing $12.9 million over four years to modernise and extend the Lending Right schemes to include ebooks and audiobooks. Claims for ebooks and audiobooks can be made from 3 April 2023 through the Lending Rights Online services.
To allow claimants sufficient time to submit new title claims for ebooks and audiobooks for the 2023‑2024 program, they are extending the title claim deadline to 30 June 2023.
Title claims submitted from 1 July 2023, and title claims for all books published in 2023 will be processed in a future program year.
New claims will not affect this year’s PLR and ELR payments, due to be made in June 2023.
If you aren’t registered please do it asap and if you are, jump online and add any ebooks or audiobooks you have created in the last 5 years.
Very exciting news!
The SCBWI Team,
Margaret Roc, Susanne Gervay, Deborah Abela and Marjorie Crosby-Fairall