Based on his answer, if he could deal with a truly global middleman that could distribute throughout the world and paid him fairly for that privilege (rather than only caring about their own current region), he would probably cease to care.
It is emphatically not the customer's job to solve the problem.
If you want money, make it easy for people to give you money, otherwise, you're just a crazy guy rambling about the vast world-wide conspiracy to screw you.
I assume that here on HN, we're interested in finding the roots causes of things. Not throwing up our hands and saying "I know it's broken, but I'm not interested in talking about how to fix it."
And then it's immoral when they try to enforce this.
The statement that I responded to was directly contradicted by a published author (cstross). That's what I was pointing out, that if we want to get further towards understanding the situation, perhaps we should listen to a person with experience in it.
Nobody is going to know how to "disrupt" a problem they don't understand.
If you had to choose an audience in front of which to explain the problem of the existing publishing industry and their outdated approach to selling digital versions of their product to people begging to be able to pay for them, can you think of anywhere else that's more likely to have enough people capable of going "I cold fix that!"?