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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
Paraphrasing here, "I am the author of Name of Book. I receive fan mail sometimes from people praising my work up and down, only to get to the end of the email and find out that they've read it at the library!"
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Paraphasing? How about actual examples of authors who have significant library sales being foolish enough to say this?
Going the other way, I live in a rather affluent community (not my block so much!) with a fair number of writers. It's surprisingly common for me to take a book out the public library and find the author has signed it.
With eBooks, where the library pays a lot more for a copy than does an individual, the author would be particularly foolish to resent library readers.