I'd say at least 30. What happens is that a writer's income is based on royalties, and when they sell a book, they get 10%, if they're lucky, of that sale. When a book is sold to a public library, they get ten cents or one dollar. But then it's read by many people. So our Public Lending Right Commission has funds that were originally established through the Massey fund, and they do tests of all the public libraries and the university libraries in Canada to see which books are found. When they find a book it's called a hit, and a hit rate is applied. If a writer has 10 hits, they get 10 times the hit rate. If they get 20 hits, they get 20 times the hit rate. So they're generating revenue for their books that are in public libraries and being used. But that hit rate has gone down to about a quarter of what it used to be, and we have more books available, more writers producing works, and fewer dollars having to cover this larger group of authors.
On October 21st, 2009. See this statement in context.