Publishers, It's Your Move

I'm concerned that publishers have a deep disconnect with readers.  This shouldn't be a surprise given that readers aren't the customer of publishers, but recent events really highlight this.  I have wavered on posting this article because on the one hand, do I really care what happens to publishers?  Won't I be able to find good authors without the publisher mechanism? Should readers be concerned about the decline of publishing in its current state? After all, publishing will still exist...