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ASA pens open letter condemning unauthorised lending

‘Australian authors, along with their counterparts around the world, are struggling to generate a sustainable income from their work … While authors are happy for their work to be read widely throughout the world, they simply want fair payment.’—ASA CEO Juliet Rogers in an open letter condemning the Open Library’s unlicensed lending of scanned copies of physical books.

 

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