[fjtorres]

The issue isn't about indie success or failure or how it comes about but that the test cases are piling up. Newcomers and veterans can both make their own strong cases for going indie, whereas the traditionalists are still holding up the same hoary old excuses for why they are "indispensable".

The vast majority of readers don't care who publishes the book; big publisher, small publisher, or indie. They care about the story and, maybe, the author.

Pretending indie titles are somehow inferior and not worth consideration is going to be an increasingly harder position to uphold in the face of the mounting evidence.