Self-publishing will save literary fiction | Hugh Howey

I think the opposite is going to happen. The future of literary fiction will be owned and operated by digital natives - writers who grow up posting on blogs, debating on forums, posting on Facebook and Twitter, and all the myriad forms of self-publishing that we don't seem to label "self-publishing". Learning how to turn a manuscript into both a physical book and an e-book at almost no expense to the author takes a weekend of fiddling around. And that's from someone who learned to type on a typewriter. Digital natives are going to be both literary and technologically savvy. It won't be long (it's probably already happening) before the next great voice is putting her work out there . . . simply because she can.