@vaurora I agree that we need a new breed of publishers, but we probably also need a new breed of publisher funding.
People still want to pay big publisher prices for little publisher creations and it's really squeezing little pubs. Very few people are offering higher prices for books, which means the publishers are squeezed and those support teams are the first to go.
I back a lot of artists on kickstarter and patreon. A lot. This funding is a recurring theme... /1