'Libraries are among the most powerful discovery engines available to an author. The person who borrows your book from the library is, far more often than not, a reader who would not have purchased it at all' https://starkreflections.substack.com/p/the-library-is-not-the-enemy-but
Discover, borrow and read lots of library books! In many countries, the authors get lovely money for it.
@mia FWIW, I'm an author that does not get "lovely money" from my books being in libraries...
... maybe mere cents...
...but I'd still rather that, than have my book's contents stolen by AI and regurgitated (for free) by third rate LLMs in a search query.
@marquisdegeek I work in the cultural sector in the UK, cents (or pennies) are still lovely!
I'm not sure how your other two sentences relate to each other, but nevermind
Mia
Marquis de Geek