new zealand
A Review of the New Zealand Authors' Fund was progressed during 1998. The working party overseeing the review was formed in 1997, and consists of representatives from Creative New Zealand, the Library Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA, PEN Incorporated) and the National Library of New Zealand.
To date, four major reports have been commissioned by the review working party. These include a comprehensive history of the scheme, two legal reports and a review of the statistical sampling methodology. It is hoped that the review will be completed in 1999, and that this will inform future planning for the scheme.
The processing of Authors' Fund payments for the 1998/99 financial year was completed in early December 1998. Despite having reduced available funding for the year for all of its responsibilities, the Council of Creative New Zealand maintained the Authors' Fund at the previous annual level of $890,000 to be shared between some 1,400 eligible authors. However, because more authors claimed on the scheme in 1998, the book rate or amount of compensation for each eligible book, slipped to $1.128 in comparison to $1.16 per book in the previous year.
Despite this, a slight decline in the growth of the number of claimants over the past two years might indicate a commensurate slowing down in the current growth of New Zealand publishing.
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