I expect as this process of digital change continues
publishers and authors (some of them self
publishers, some of them hybrid authors who both self publish and use traditional
publishers and some of them pure line traditionally published [though I expect these to be a smaller and smaller
band over time]-RRB- will work together not less frequently, but more frequently and in multiple ways rather than in the more straightforward ways of the past (the emerging value
web I discus here).