The
August 2013 issue of the Authors' Licensing and Copyright Society (ALCS) News has now been published. One of the most interesting items this month is entitled "
The August Distribution". In brief:
"This month ALCS is paying over £7.5 million to more than 21,000 Members. Here's our guide to the second of this year's two distributions".
That works out at around £370 per member -- certainly not enough to live on, and a far cry from the
earnings of the world's most commercially successful novelists. Anyway, if you've ever wondered how authors' collecting societies function, this item will shed a little light.
