it goes to the publisher because they don't trust their editors any longer. I've contracted for services. No, believe me, I've heard enough and seen enough of what happens when you get fee'd to death or have your rights stolen by the proverbial SlickTrickSchtick Press LLC! The folks I'm working with are at a small company that offers tiers of services and that is very clear about what they do, what they don't do, how much they charge, and what other options are available. I say "press" in that they do the formatting, eBook set-up, file merging (in this case), and obtaining of ISBN. Thus far, albeit still early in the process, I'm very pleased with the communication and the results. I figure, at this point it's best to cover as many possible ways to publish as possible. One of them is bound to work, right? So I'm self-Indie-pubbing, Indie pubbing, and still have an agent out hawking two titles. Not that I have any hopes of a large traditional publisher taking any interest, at this stage of the transition, but a small press would be nice. And on the self-indie end of things, it will probably pay to branch out as wide as possible. Right now, while I'm editing a whole series, to get it into publishable form, I'm just on Amazon, so I'm doing the Amazon Select. What the heck. Once the series is done (two more titles) I'll do POD next, then get out of the Select