Books, Scientific Publishing,Paid Newspapers/Magazines all are media formats that inherently promote exclusive access systems that denies 'literacy' in subject of "published content" without paying the copyright owner the fee(such fee could be for physical data container or access/subscription to electronic files).
This is contrasted with File Sharing, where cooperation leaves no room for personal profit and no barriers to entry('literacy in subject') exist.
The Anti-literacy crowd are the Luddites buying expensive books, relying on subscriptions and paid files/e-books/articles which fuel this anti-literacy anti-knowledge anti-egalitarian system holding knowledge in dark until the victims pay for it. Your stubborn Ludditic worship of ancient data formats is the anti-literacy in its purest form: back when books were expensive such "book literacy" was kept to the rich. We are living in an age of "Electronic Literacy" where knowledge is free, only copyright merchants are keeping us in the dark ages.