Are any major publishers putting out ANY titles in electronic form only?
I'd like to see a graph of the average price of a hardback or MMPB book over the last 50 years versus some standard such as income or cost of living. It seems to me access to published material (whether you want to call it "literary" or not) has been continually increasing by leaps and bounds ever since that guy converted a wine press into printing on paper.
And you want to talk about lack of access to electronic media, there's the One Laptop Per Child that has given
2.5 million laptops to children and teachers around the world who couldn't otherwise afford them. And as the guy in my avatar likes to say, half the farmers in China now have access to more information than the President of the United States did 15 years ago. More and more books are being read on iPhones and iPads, for many reasons (from convenience to the fact that the device owner doesn't own and can't get physical books).
And yes, some books that WERE published might not have "deserved" to be published (this is more often true of vanity and self-published books), but even some of those are "interesting" in their own way.
