The author states:<p>&quot;You would frequently hear that authors are paid royalties when their books are borrowed from a library. This claim is not true. &quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure what he&#x27;s trying to say.  In the UK, public libraries are part of the PLR scheme in which 1,000 annually-rotated libraries provide their lending details which are then scaled-up in a linear fashion and the royalties calculated on that basis.<p>It does mean that low-volume authors might not receive royalties one year if their loans were not sampled, but the concept is that they&#x27;d receive out-of-proportion royalties the next year when the sample set rotated.<p>The only reason a sample was used instead of direct measurement was due to the volume of data; automation could nowadays calculate per-author royalties on an all-branches basis.<p>Source: I summer-jobbed in a library back in the mid-90s and compiled the PLR statistics for the branch.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plr.uk.com&#x2F;libraryInformation&#x2F;sampleLibLists.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plr.uk.com&#x2F;libraryInformation&#x2F;sampleLibLists.htm</a>