Betsy_Ch2_Aarseth_Q

Aatseth states "digital literature is real literature" and "digital literature is still literature, pure, if not simple. When I can read a Harry Potter novel on my palm pilot, paper is no longer an inegral part of literature's material or ideological foundations."

I agree literature can be placed digitally in different places, websites, palm pilots, readings on iTunes. But my question is, how does the 'publishing' come in to context? Can people essentually publish their own work? Or do you still have to go to a publisher. There is a difference between copywriting, publishing, and just placing on the web for everyone to see digitally. How could or will those lines be drawn?