re: E-publishing update
Tom, I published 4 of my books on Kindle a couple of days ago and already I have sold four books. Granted, I only made a couple of bucks, but it’s a start.
I did have some problems getting the books to format right, especially pictures and tables, but I think I have figured it out.
The nice thing about it is that you can always unpublished your book if you get a real publisher interested in it. It is also cool that you show up in Amazon searches.