Short answer, yes, but by this point, being an author means pretty much nothing. Having the skill of publishing an article or block of text you created is as rare as knowing how to drive a car; just about everyone old enough can do it. At this time in history, everybody by age twenty can label themselves as "authors," yet only a fraction can establish an idea with decent English skills. A common theme in "authors" these days is a lack of punctuation, consistency, spell check, and rational thought. If you want a source of these claims, go to your Facebook page or a relatives or whatever, and scroll through five posts from five different people. Chances are, 4.5 out of 5 people cannot bother to communicate like a normal human being through social media. Google Translate would provide better execution in English structure than most "authors" these days.
If I can keep rambling on, the introduction to Everybody's An Author felt pretentious and preachy, in a pounding-on-the-door-to-sell-you-the-next-big-religion sort of way. Just because the author rate went from 0.0001 to 100% doesn't mean everybody turned into bestselling writers, it's just gotten as achievable as graduating from high school. Now being a good author is a different story...
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