I'm curious, Neil, why you frown at $2 ebooks yet your signature is touting them at Bewrite. I think $2 is a perfectly fair price for an ebook, and I've published in mass market. It's important to compare the income stream over a lifetime, with the author controlling all rights, versus giving a long-term license to a publisher but only getting a couple of payments out of it (and then, usually a long dead time before you get your rights back, if ever.)
Major publishers have an entirely different goal from me. So do agents. If anyone's interested, I just blogged about the sad plight of writers at
http://hauntedcomputer.blogspot.com
Good opinions on this forum, I am learning a lot.