Are libraries good for authors?

Kristin Laughtin writing on Rachelle Gardner’s site:

Libraries also provide a platform for discovery, allowing readers to try an author, see them at an event, or receive a recommendation, before going out to buy all their books. We can’t gauge the cause and effect exactly, but libraries are definitely not a threat to a publisher’s bottom line. They may even drive sales more than hinder them.

Almost certainly.

10 November 2011