The author argues against the quick-to-blame mob, and yet tries to make it sound like publishers were partly responsible for this ("thanks to ... publisher FUD") and yet nowhere is there any mention of a single publisher involved in this whole debacle (other than Amazon). Something happened to e-books! It must be the publishers! Get your pitchforks!
Since the host was getting hundreds of take down notices I suspect that somewhere on the not disclosed list were in fact publishers. I'm willing to take that assumption on faith unless you have a copy of the list and there are no publishers on it?