An argument could be made that pay to play is built into the self-publishing model, so this isn’t a terrible development, but this has the feeling of milking self-published authors like so many other promotional schemes.
via Self-Publishing Review | Blog | The New Publishers Weekly Select.
Mike Cane’s xBlog 
Thanks for the link, Mike. I have just blogged this:
http://richardherley.blogspot.com/2010/08/pw-select-quarterly-service-for-self.html