Certainly the current corrupt system of publishers who give free samples blah blah blah is totally screwed up. But there's certainly room for a "thin" publishin

Certainly the current corrupt system of publishers who give free samples blah blah blah is totally screwed up. But there's certainly room for a "thin" publishing layer like iBooks, Lulu, Nook, KDP, etc. where the only thing the "publisher" does is free the authors from dealing with the nuts and bolts of ecommerce.