Helping Out Your Favorite Authors

The publishing world has gone into a tailspin. Publishers have grabbed at the parachutes and are throwing authors from the plane to lighten the load, trying to make sure they have enough fuel to...what? They don't know. That they want to survive is obvious, but can they? Is there a landing strip, a clear bit of forest, or even an island they can aim at?  No. There is not. Electronic publishing has changed the world of the word forever, whether for good or ill, it will never be as it was. The last generation of "great authors" who we will…