Nicely idealistic article - but it both claims to be written by a publisher of short stories, and is willfully blind to the most basic facts about the modern fi

Nicely idealistic article - but it both claims to be written by a publisher of short stories, and is willfully blind to the most basic facts about the modern fiction market. "Publishing monopolies" or not, the total revenues (direct sales, advertising, residuals) attributable to short stories are far lower than they were in the good old days. The print magazines and newspapers which most of those short stories were published in (back then) are now mostly dead, or mere shadows of their former selves. If you think that your favorite form of art is both important enough, and endangered enough, to deserve ongoing heavy government subsidies, then say so. Though in today's political environment, that would run into another brick wall of basic facts.