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Speaking as a writer, I'm happy to receive corrections when I've gotten something wrong, as long as the information comes in the form of a constructive suggestion, and the sender gives some indication of appreciation of the work in general. (Well, happy might be an exaggeration. Grateful, perhaps.)
On the day my Battlestar novel was published, I got an email from a reader informing me that I'd misread the nickname on the side of William Adama's old Viper. It wasn't Husher, it was Husker. (My only source of information on this was a shot from the DVD of the miniseries, and there was exactly one frame that clearly showed the correct spelling.) Still, the correspondent was right, and we got it fixed for the paperback. Now that I think about it, I don't know if it was corrected in the ebook or not.
More recently, someone sent me a short list of typos in the ebook of Sunborn. That was very helpful, and caught some things I'd missed, the copy editor had missed, and the proofreader had missed. (The list also included some suggested copy edits, and that was less useful.) In fact, Tor recently uploaded a corrected version of that ebook, fixing those typos and also including a new afterword.
So yes, if it's done tactfully, sending a correction may be a gesture the author will appreciate. (In my younger days, I sent an author a correction, and did not do it tactfully. That was a mistake I did not repeat.)
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