Is this the future, and do I like it? Pt. 2

After Paul Torday related his latest adventure in the digital new world, here is Fleet Street veteran Walter Ellis on the trials of self-publishing on Amazon. Soon kindled and soon burnt: The gentle art of online publishing The idea of a level playing field is that everyone engaged in a competitive activity should have the same opportunity to achieve success as everybody else. Kindle is supposed to offer independent authors a level playing field. But does it? So far as I can tell, unknown authors who break into the Top 1,000 are quite rare, though nowhere near as rare