Digital Text Debate

Ya know, I like digital text. I believe in the accessibility, free cost, and ease of using Googledocs to publish anything you want, because it takes the power away from publishers when it comes to censorship. Typically publishers could have clout in changing the plot of a story for fear of the majority of readers would not like it and book sales would go down. Or publishers could make the cover of a novel more sexy with good looking people or some hip graphic design that was not the original intent or direction the author was thinking. It is this freedom and creative license that "open source" (hope I used this term correctly) technology like Gooogledocs gives anyone who wants to become a "published author", a level ground to let their unedited written opinions and narratives to be read. In tying in what I said up above and the course readings, I guess I was just really unaware of "magic 1920s law" that determines which books are public domain and which books are bound by copyright laws. I guess since I was one of those kids whose mom took me to the library twice a week, I just felt that any book I needed I could grasp at my local library. But digital text does make accessibility easier, and local libraries are not always down the street as mine was growing up. So I do think digital text is a fully positive thing, and do not really care about copyright laws anymore because they limit accessibility.