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Hi Magnus,

it may be worth sending an email to check, but legal deposit website https://www.bl.uk/legal-deposit does mention digitally published works as these also count as published works, whether or not they're in print.

Hoope that helps :)
Happy New Year.

Jacqui

Alex wrote: "Thanks for the heads up White Diamond

I've just emailed the British Library @ legal-deposit-books@bl.uk to check whether this applies to indie published authors who are not represented by a publis..."

No worries, Alex. As far as I'm aware it is also for self-published authors as technically speaking you take on the banner of publisher when you publish your own book, so this law should still apply.

Anna Faversham wrote: "Ooh, now that is interesting. Tomorrow, when I am not half asleep as I am now, I'll follow this through.

Thank you so much."

You're welcome :)

Just a thought for the UK market, but there is such a thing as Legal Deposit, which makes it obligatory for publishers and distributors in the United Kingdom and Ireland to deposit their publications. This is something quite often overlooked by self-published authors. Basically, whenever you publish a book, you are obliged by law to deposit your publication in the six legal deposit libraries. These libraries collectively maintain the national published archive of the British Isles. The principle of legal deposit has been well established for nearly four centuries.

The bonus of doing this is that it makes your book available for access by both libraries and book retailers. There is no fee for doing this, other than the cost to you as the author to get the books and pay postage.

You can find out more about this here. https://www.iamselfpublishing.com/leg...

It's worth a read, and as mentioned above is actually a legal obligation when you publish a book.

Hope that helps.