iPad Could Help Writers Who Want to Self Publish

We're at a very interesting time in publishing.  For a long time authors needed presses to connect them with their readers, their audiences.  Authors needed the publishers to get their books into bookstores.





But now with the internet and blogs, we are all very much connected.  And with digital books, that's also not needed as much.





What's a writer to do?





Some writers are taking things into their hands (a la' Walt Whitman) and self-publishing their books.





NPR had an...