Counterweight to Publishing's Chicken Littles

The sky is falling! Just this week we have:

• major layoffs at Publishers Weekly
• the demise of Washington Post "Book World" as a stand-alone section
  
• "voluntary retirements" at HarperCollins
• and for good measure, a monster storm in the Northeast

Novelist Jason Pinter provides a welcome tonic for all this on his blog by asking:

What is one thing you would do to change book publishing for the better?

See the (mostly) intelligent responses in The Future of Publishing.