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I don't believe we're going down this path again:
If you take 100, 1,000, or any other number of randomly selected indie books and compare them to the same number of randomly selected mainstream commercially published books, you will find that the commercially published books have fewer typos and grammatical errors. The writing will be better on a technical level because someone who knows what they are doing and does not know what the author meant to say, but only what they said has gone through and fixed errors.
It may not be perfect, but it will be far better than the majority of indie books, commercial publishers are justifiably held to a far higher standard in this area and it shows.
For those readers who really get annoyed at the errors that commonly slip into self-published works, commercially published books are a better choice because they're not pushing their buttons.
Also, if you get back to the original author's reasoning for why she made the decision she did, you'll see that money was not the main factor. Her primary concern was that the New York houses were too slow for her output. They wouldn't put out her books as fast as she wanted, and they wouldn't let her put out the other books she intended to write in the meantime.
Yes, she had a great first month, but the reason this appears to have been the right choice for her wasn't the money, but that she had certain specific goals she could meet through self-publishing, but not through the New York houses given the contracts they were offering.
She chose the option that best fit her goals.
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