Being able to edit puclications makes sense for reference books and encyclopedias, just like the essay says it does. Reference materials should only be able to be edited by those who published them, in order to ensure that they are accurate. If everyone could edit every reference material, nobody would trust refences anymore. I do not think novels will be edited as much as the author claims they weill be. Authors of novels will not want to keep meddling with the same story their whole lives, and audiences won't want to reread the story to see what minute detail was changed this time. Audiences will continue to want new stories to be published, just as they always have.
I can see that many other forms of literature may be constantly revised, but at some point it would be more organized to write a new essay or argument including everything, to make it more cohesive.
The author says that e-books will make it easier for dictatoral governments and school boards to control what their audiences view. I can see a dicatator doing that, but I'm not sure a school board would bother.I've always seen parents fighting to restrict what their kids read, with the school boards against the parents.
I do agree that with the specific knowledge of what pages are skimmed spikked that some authors will begin to tailor their stories more toward their audiences intrests, if that isn't too tedious.
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