Okay, hands up those of you who insisted that your local library was going the way of the Dodo.
Good, now those of you who said e-books were just a fad, stick up your fists, too.
Now, don’t you look foolish.
Today, soaring numbers of ebook (and audio downloads) have been reported by OverDrive, the world’s leader in ebook and audio downloads.
Adding to the good news reported in their press release is a 40% increase in new library users and a 53% increase in ebook checkouts.
Yeah, I know that we authors don’t get royalties directly from library downloads but we do receive some for the books purchased by the libraries and exposure to new readers is one key way to for us to increase our paying audience.
So I think this is terrific news.
Oh, and what were the most downloaded fiction and non-fiction ebooks of 2009?
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
Congrats, guys.
(And thanks to Jeremy Burgin for his Dodo pic)









