Charlie Stross on Publishing Industry Misconceptions – eBooks:

The agency model is ultimately going to change the structure of the ebook market; if ebooks become more profitable for publishers, we’re going to see more of them. And indeed, in the past year I’ve seen a startling increase in the speed with which ebook editions of my work are rolled out by my publishers.

It helps that Stross is a Computer Science graduate. He understands the difficulties of building an eBook platform – something publishers are currently not equipped to deal with.