ps. I know a lot of people here give pod companies a bad rap, and you guys do have some valid points about its problems. However they are a lot of benefits to pod - not least for authors without much money.
Publishing is now affordable for nearly everyone, whereas a few years ago it was not. Very soon, any author with limited means can get in print and start to make money.
There is a little bit of snobbery around I think about pod. Yes, in an ideal world we'd get a huge publishing deal with a 'proper' publisher, or failing that print stacks of litho copies at the much lower unit price than pod and quickly get rid of them and be in profit a week later....but we are not in an ideal world. Many self-publishers I know who have printed litho still have stacks of books all over their houses (in the attic, in the spare bedroom, the garage, the basement and even in the toilet) and have failed to make any profit...despite years of time and effort they are still 'in the red' financially and it is soul destroying and I bet they all wish they'd gone pod.