Russell, thank you for the link, very interesting. I am still laboring under the impression that self-published books are for people who "aren't good enough" to get a publisher. Hopefully my ereader (and maybe some recs from here??) will persuade me otherwise. I worked in publishing in the early 90s and had an internship at FSG, one of the last of the "literary" publishers. Roger Strauss used to buy all the interns ice cream on Fridays.
And also: Never Let Me Go is one of my favorite books.
eP