Reads Block Writes?

I know that a "select for update" will lock rows and block an update statement, but is it possible for a simple select to block an update of the same table? Using a "lockby" script, it appears to be the case that a long running select is blocking an update, but I didn't think that this would happen.

Thanks for any replies.  

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