The UK gives eligible authors some money for their books being borrowed from the library -- the Public Lending Right (PLR) system -- and so each year they tally the most borrowed titles, etc. -- always interesting statistics.
James Patterson is in a league of his own -- 17 books in the top 100, 2.3 million total borrowings, and five of the top ten most-borrowed titles. Presumably it does him little good -- only UK and European Economic Area resident authors are eligible -- but then he's probably doing o.k., and the extra couple of thousand pounds aren't going to be too missed.
See also, for example, John Dugdale's look at the numbers and titles in The Guardian, Crime gives library loan beating to other genres -- where he notes, among other things, that there is no non-fiction at all in the top 100.
James Patterson is in a league of his own -- 17 books in the top 100, 2.3 million total borrowings, and five of the top ten most-borrowed titles. Presumably it does him little good -- only UK and European Economic Area resident authors are eligible -- but then he's probably doing o.k., and the extra couple of thousand pounds aren't going to be too missed.
See also, for example, John Dugdale's look at the numbers and titles in The Guardian, Crime gives library loan beating to other genres -- where he notes, among other things, that there is no non-fiction at all in the top 100.