But the DCMS said the position on the PLR and community libraries was clear.
Mission: To take the fight to the People's Liberation and Resistance (PLR) army in Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan and New York during a war set in 2014.
Their annual PLR payments provide an important part of their core income.
"PLR is very important to people who are having hiccups in their career, and pretty important for newly published authors as well," said Haddon.
It's night and PLR troops are patrolling the wrecked city looking for US troops.
Publishers are focusing their concentration on fewer bestsellers, there's a squeeze on mid-list authors, and the budget is not going to help," said Le Fanu, who – together with a cadre of the society's biggest names – will be writing to culture minister Ed Vaizey to make the case for the PLR.
"Long may they live!" Walliams's salute to libraries is one in which every author poring over these PLR figures can enthusiastically share.
Patriots can rejoice in the top three places being unusually captured by British writers, with a double for Lee Child and EL James picking up a much-needed PLR cheque too (6.20p per book borrowed, but capped at £6,600 per author).
Data from the PLR can be found in the downloadable spreadsheet and includes most borrowed titles and authors as well as all the regional breakdowns.
The data from PLR shows the most popular library books in 2012-13 by category and region (you can find the full data in the downloadable spreadsheet).
The news follows a question from Labour MP Dan Jarvis last month, which saw the shadow culture minister ask Vaizey why the public lending right (PLR), which remunerates authors each time their physical books are borrowed from libraries, was not being extended to ebooks.
