Amazon, and their eBook publishing partner, Kindle, have turned the publishing industry on its head. What had been an agonizing slog all new authors had to undergo before getting their work into print has now become, dare I say, simple, inexpensive (as in having virtually no up-front costs) and sure. Newly published books, some taking years to write, don't wither and die within a few weeks of being printed. The first four books written and published through normal channels by the author of Self-Publishing Simplified taught him that, for mid-list authors, the major publishing houses offer no...