Pratchett: 38th Most Borrowed Author

21 January 2008 (17:49) Terry Pratchett News News Archives

On the site of Public Lending Right, an organization which promotes “the right for authors to receive payment … for the loans of their books by public libraries,” the 2005-2006 list of the top authors whose books are borrowed from public libraries was released. On the July 2005-June 2006 Most Borrowed Authors List (pdf), Terry Pratchett is ranked at 37, beating J.K. Rowling at 38.  Other authors on the list include Jacqueline Wilson, Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith, and Roald Dahl.  On the previous year’s list (pdf), which used records from July 2004 to June 2005, Terry Pratchett’s rank was 28.

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