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One can trawl the Internet and find all kinds of anti-publisher screeds written by authors who are dissatisfied with traditional publishers. So what?
Publishers can't respond in kind, so you hear only one side. This doesn't really prove much. In the end, most authors want to work with a publisher whenever they can-including self pubbers.
As far as Terry Goodkind is concerned, he achieved great success by working with a traditional publisher. His publisher is Tor, a branch of the evuulest BPH of all-Macmillan , who faced down Amazon and brought agency pricing into the ebook world. He is still working with Tor, BTW-He is publishing another novel through Tor later this year.
Why is he doing this book self pub? Well, it could be:
1. His editors at Tor told him this book was not up to par and he decided to that they were wrong and to put it out himself.
2. He just wanted a one off experiment.
3. This is the first step in a campaign to gradually move away from traditional publishers' "plantations" into the bracing freedom of "self publishing".
Personally, I think (1) most likely, although many folks here like (3).
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