Modern libraries allow people to access informational/recreational content for free (or, highly subsidized through taxpayer money). When they were originally established, did libraries receive negative press from content creators like authors, similar to how musicians and filmmakers today object to the sharing of music or movies through online portals?
In an answer to "Has there ever been a push to ban libraries by the book publishing industry?", /u/caffarelli addressed a similar/relevant topic (whether publishers opposed public libraries). That answer is USA centric though.
George Gissing's 1891 New Grub Street focused on the great difficulties of an English writer making anything like a decent living, or with decent writing being treated with any respect. Gissing was at the time a frustrated author, who had to teach in order to make a living, and so his opinion of libraries is not indicative perhaps of English authors altogether. But in the book there is a current of resentment against the lending libraries of the time. Not because they pushed people to only borrow books and so hurt sales, but because they leaned on publishers to require their authors to write two-volume novels. The libraries weren't free, so anyone borrowing volume one would then almost inevitably have to pay another fee in order to finish the novel with volume two.