Recently a discussion came up among fellow writers about the legitimacy of self-publishing versus legacy publishers. Some of the comments from my colleagues left me, frankly, startled. One writer commented that he had, ‘a deep-seated distrust of all things that smack of self-publishing,’ while another writer commented that ‘…”real” publishers regard themselves as such, and they regard everything from literary presses with two books a year down through small press, ebooks and self-publishing as being…