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Budget for Public Lending Right scheme, which pays just over six pence per loan, is already being reduced by 3% this year

Minor romantic novelists might not be the first group to come to mind when you consider deprived victims of the current public spending cuts. But they and a host of the UK's lesser known authors are up in arms at the prospect of a drop in their already limited incomes through cuts in the money paid out on library loans.