You're right that he doesn't mention that Amazon's revenues dwarf the publishers' revenues, though this [1] Guardian article suggests that Amazon's book revenue

You're right that he doesn't mention that Amazon's revenues dwarf the publishers' revenues, though this [1] Guardian article suggests that Amazon's book revenues may be as low as 7% of the revenue figure that Stross cited. At any rate, the most interesting points in the blog post were that firstly it's not clear that Hachette aren't playing some shenanigans of their own with delivery times, and secondly that there's this whole background of court-ordered deal renegotiation that Stross didn't mention. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/23/amazon-escalates-battle-hachette-publishing http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/23/amazon-esc...