http://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/apple-to-launch-new-self-publishing-program-later-this-month/
Jabari Mahiri is a professor at Berkeley, he once stated that new technology promotes new literacies. Technology has changed the way information is disseminated. The publishing house is no longer the sole proprietor of what reaches the mainstream. Apple has revolutionized who owns music, games, movies, picture, and NOW independent works of literature.