Thanks. This is a great summing-up of the essay. FWIW, I've seen 3 or 4 "rebuttals" of pg essays, and they all read about the same. For instance, one pg essay

Thanks. This is a great summing-up of the essay. FWIW, I've seen 3 or 4 "rebuttals" of pg essays, and they all read about the same. For instance, one pg essay mentions how large glossy magazines all cost about the same, and how this spelled difficult times for the publishing industry in the future, given the likely average for a digital book or a website view. Someone wrote a rebuttal from the viewpoint of the publishing industry, which, when unpacked, contained only one concrete point, which was approximately "No, publishing is doing great -- look how many millions of copies Sarah Palin's book sold!"