ebooks & Independent Authors vs Traditionally Published Ones

By now most have heard about this this writer Amanda Hocking who self published her e-books and sold 450,000 copies in January. I found out about it via Nathan Bransford's blog, who I used to follow when he was an agent, but stopped because I could not take all the sucking up some of the followers did. He's no longer an agent and the blog is still going strong, minus all the invisible hand stuff, which was very refreshing. He had a good post today regarding ebooks, traditional, and self publishing. You can check it out HERE