I’d like to see the transitioning between traditional paper based book creation and sales, marketing and distribution and the digital models made easier through sites that actively cater to the readers — for example, a site like Medium that has a fiction orientation, for publishers, agents, editors, illustrators, writers and readers to be able to interact and comment on creative work that is all related to the publishing industry and their consumers. Photographers, memoirists, nonfiction knowledge-based authors, novelists, short story writers, flash, poets etc etc, being able to market and promote their work in the same environment as publishers, distributors, booksellers are able to advise of needs — publishers looking for more of a particular genre, for example — or distributors offering deals on paperbacks and ebooks distribution in competition with Amazon at the source.

The usual manner for the market to transition between an old and new model, particularly where both are going to be valid forms for years to come is always stupidly awkward instead of being smooth and streamlined for consumer ease of buying. It drives me nuts. People aren’t learning or evolving.