Maybe it's my imagination, but it appears to me that electronic publications are pushing out the small press from the market. Since most small press pubs operate on practically a non-profit basis, it seems to me that contributing to electronic pubs is hastening the small press' death. For example, people are always talking about the loss of revenue for such organizations as The Small Press Association ,etc and the problem seems to be genuine.

For writers just starting out the small press has been the only place to break into the market and to try out one's talents before a genuine readership. But websites and the Internet seem to have given a crushing blow to these hard-copy markets. Therefore, I refuse to participate in electronic publishing which may, in the long run, result in the demise of the very markets which helped get me started.

Is all this just the product of my overactive imagination. Or is this paranoia warranted?