On the plus side, WH Smiths will soon be a site where you can search for a book without being innundated with x thousand self-pubbed titles in your results - This is good or bad depending on what you are looking for
I wonder where small independent publishing houses will fit in this, will there be a cutoff if a publishing house only published less than a certain number of authors or is it big 5 only.
I must admit I would like to have an option to ignore self-pubbed books in searches (of course I would also like an option on Amazon to ignore books in a foreign languange as well, so mayby I'm just picky)