Another relevant link, this time to a blog post by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, in my opinion one of the more insightful commentators.
http://kriswrites.com/2015/08/12/bus...-it-does-best/ Once again, the post speaks for itself, and I won't comment further at this stage. A relevant extract (referring to Mike Shatzkin and "his traditional publishing friends":
They also don’t understand something: they’ve lost hundreds if not thousands of important writers (no quotes). People like Elizabeth Spann Craig and Barry Eisler and J.A. Konrath. Writers like the ones in the Storybundle that I curated this month. Every single book, by every one of those writers, is indie published.