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That is interesting about Kobo being allowed on the Amazon appstore
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Yup! Interesting times indeed. It's still complete speculation at this stage, but I hope it's a good sign.
I would say that each edition of a book has only one publisher. So I wouldn't say "someone". I would say "
the person or organisation who..."
For example, there are many traditional publishers who sell their books through the Amazon Kindle store. Amazon credit them as the publisher when you look at the book in the store, and their name will be shown as publisher on the title page. If you redefine publisher so that Amazon becomes a joint publisher of such a book, the word loses a lot of specificity.
Amazon DTP books are generally self-published, i.e. the publisher is the author. (Though I've seen it suggested that if you're aiming for money or even just fame in self-publishing, you should try to distinguish between the two roles in your head). Perhaps the word doesn't fit perfectly here -- "this book has no publisher" sounds equally valid -- perhaps we'll see new words for a new order of things. But I don't think Amazon are doing anything more or different than in the first case, that would make them a publisher in this case.
Amazon is only "publisher" where
the publisher is a brand they own. (I don't know whether they've actually started selling yet).
I'm not hung up on size -- with "self-publishing", you can have a publisher with just one book, and that doesn't bother me.