Most people are astonished when I tell them about editing, proofing and so on. More astonished when I tell them I revised my manuscript ten times. (In fairness, when you're writing on top of doing a day job, the work just can't be as sharp, so I reckon that's probably three or four of the revisions.) Like you, I don't have the answer - these are interesting times. I don't buy into the way the press like to portray this as a new battleground, with publishing losing out to indies - that's just nonsense. But I do think the changes are a challenge for publishers. At the end of the day, publisher want authors who can sell books - perhaps the savvy publishers will add popular independent authors to their watch lists. Who knows? It's going to be an interesting few years.