The Public Lending Right (PLR) Commission mails over 15,000 cheques to authors
Ottawa, February 16, 2007 – We are pleased to announce that the 2007 PLR cheques were mailed to registered authors on February 14, 2007. In total, 15,417 authors were issued cheques and the average payment was $588. The total amount of the payments was $9,062,475.61.
PLR payments are issued to authors in recognition of the presence of their eligible books in Canadian public libraries. The payments are determined by sampling the holdings of a selection of public libraries across the country.
This year, 640 authors received their first PLR payment. A total of 3,788 new eligible books were registered in the program in 2006. The maximum payment per title declined from $287.35 (in 2006) to $281.05, due to the combined impact of an ever increasing number of registered titles, and a budget that does not grow at the same rate.
The distribution of payments by province follows:
Province or territory |
Amount |
Alberta |
$395,202.33 |
British Columbia |
$1,198,589.82 |
Manitoba |
$177,016.49 |
New Brunswick |
$152,549.96 |
Newfoundland and Labrador |
$98,161.24 |
Northwest Territories |
$4,105.34 |
Nova Scotia |
$233,331.73 |
Nunavut Territory |
$1,939.68 |
Ontario |
$2,791,813.22 |
Prince Edward Island |
$32,686.47 |
Quebec |
$3,494,566.01 |
Saskatchewan |
$166,495.48 |
Yukon Territory |
$8,204.29 |
Outside Canada |
$307,813.55 |
Authors have the opportunity to register new eligible books from February 15 until May 1, 2007.
