This is going to be short and to the point:

We need more diversity in US publishing. There is no question. This is not limited to the very real need for more writers representing the full spectrum of the native and immigrant peoples of the USA, but we desperately, desperately need people from across a far wider range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds as editors, publishers and marketers. Because it is only when the institutions that create the books that most people still buy and read change...