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Speaker 1: Jub mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Did you know, as I said, I was yesterday years

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Speaker 2: old and I learned some information. Oh yeah, they ah,

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Speaker 2: so let's talk about that information.

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Speaker 1: This is Amanda's interesting information.

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Speaker 3: Do we had an intro Amanda's interesting information told by

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Speaker 3: herself Amanda? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We have to talk like that throughout the whole segment.

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Speaker 3: That's relief.

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Speaker 2: Did you know that when you borrow a library book,

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Speaker 2: the author gets paid.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that katching for us.

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Speaker 1: We've both written books.

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Speaker 3: Well, where's the kachin? No one's borrowing from the library.

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Speaker 1: Is your book in your local library? Have you checked

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Speaker 1: it out?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I love libraries. I haven't been to one for a while.

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Speaker 2: They've become real social hubs, haven't they. They've got kids reading,

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Speaker 2: they've got you know, craft days, they've got other things up.

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Speaker 3: I've done talks in libraries.

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Speaker 1: One of my friends said my book was in the

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Speaker 1: local library, but someone had scratched out the face.

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Speaker 3: Sorry about that. I want petrol money.

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Speaker 1: To say cover the book, they cover the book. They

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Speaker 1: cover the book in in contact paper. But someone had

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Speaker 1: picked the contact paper off over.

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Speaker 3: My face so that they could black out your teeth.

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Speaker 1: No, they didn't blame it, And I said, well, what

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Speaker 1: do you mean was it? Was it deliberate vandalism or

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Speaker 1: is it just accident?

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Speaker 2: I can imagine you drilled down on it or could

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Speaker 2: have it could have been someone just kissing that face.

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Speaker 1: So was that you?

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Speaker 3: Again, I wouldn't waste my petrol on that.

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Speaker 2: But it's interesting I did not know that because authors

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Speaker 2: actually don't make very much money at all.

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Speaker 3: If you're if you're Jane Harper. I read something recently that.

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Speaker 2: Looked at all the top books that have been borrowed

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Speaker 2: from libraries during lockdown.

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Speaker 3: Jane Harper, brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Author Leanne Moriart.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, although JK. Rowley absolutely.

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Speaker 2: But so for each book in public library collections, the

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Speaker 2: author receives two dollars eleven and the publishers received fifty

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Speaker 2: two cents. So for an author that could be the difference.

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Speaker 2: It might be one hundred to five hundred dollars annually.

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Speaker 2: One of the authors I saw on Twitter esterday said

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Speaker 2: I just got my notification of payment. It's double what

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Speaker 2: I earned for royalty. So thank you to borrowers. You know,

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Speaker 2: authors really struggle. I guess you get an advance to

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Speaker 2: write it, and then you get the royalties not much though.

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Speaker 2: For every sale of a book, ten percent of the

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Speaker 2: recommended retail price goes to the author. If there are

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Speaker 2: multiple authors or collaborators, like a kid's book, they might

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Speaker 2: be a writer and an illustrator.

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Speaker 3: That's split between the paper.

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Speaker 1: Who hasn't got a kid's book out of these days

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Speaker 1: it seems that everyone is writing a kid's book.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're not going to get much money from it.

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Speaker 2: One of i'm irma gold author of a children's book,

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Speaker 2: reveals her personal learnings. She said, my picture book retails

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Speaker 2: a twenty seven ninety five, So every book sal I

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Speaker 2: get five percent because there's also an illustrator a doll

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Speaker 2: that's a dollar forty. But that's only the case on

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Speaker 2: full price sales. If the book is sold at a

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Speaker 2: discounted rate, the author may get next to nothing. For example,

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Speaker 2: my latest royalty statement on a bunch of books that

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Speaker 2: were sold at discount netted me the grand total of

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Speaker 2: thirteen cents per book. It's tough, isn't it, But think

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Speaker 2: about that when you go into your library, if you

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Speaker 2: you know youre also still supporting the author.

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Speaker 3: I thought that was great, Yeah, I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time you went to a library? Oh?

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Speaker 1: You know why you don't go to libraries? Tell the

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Speaker 1: class what happens.

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Speaker 2: I guess to go to the library once every couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks with my dad Hornsby Library, and there's something

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Speaker 2: about the smell of the books. The same happens to

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Speaker 2: me in furniture shops. I have to go to the toilet.

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Speaker 3: Seriously, go to the toilet a serious situation. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Something that just makes it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know whether it's because I'm comfortable there, yep,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. But every single time.

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Speaker 1: Is that why Jerry Harvey's been avoiding us?

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Speaker 3: I don't even understand that I've.

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Speaker 1: Got no interest, Amanda, because you go into his furniture shop.

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Speaker 3: Don't get into a plumbing store. The copy of your book.

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Speaker 1: I'm just carrying off for twenty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Amanda's generation