How amusing indeed.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/10/27/how-amusing-barnes-noble-is-now-amazons-biggest-publishing-problem/

Indeed -

"B&N’s argument is that if they cannot sell the digital version of the book then they’ll not be willing to sell the paper one either. And Amazon really isn’t going to start offering B&N the opportunity to sell the digital versions.

The effect of this is larger than you might think. For Amazon had deliberately aimed at that general interest best seller market. But seeing that the books it has published haven’t gained traction it’s finding that authors and agents don’t particularly want to sign up with Amazon as the publisher"

Gee, as an author I wouldn't want anything to do with Amoron either.