Reply to David Prosser

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

David Prosser wrote:

"Finally, I wonder if I was the only person who, after reading 
Newton's ill-informed and (in my view) wrong-headed piece, felt a 
greater desire to boycott Bloomsbury than Google?"

Nigel Newton is the publisher of Harry Potter and is probably the 
single individual on the planet who has done the most to bring 
books into the lives of children.  I was disappointed in his 
column (which I would characterize as right-headed but 
ill-informed), but let's not be stinting about his 
accomplishments.  There are other parents on this list besides me 
who had the extraordinary experience of waiting outside a 
bookshop at midnight, the streets thick with kids dressed as 
witches and warlocks, waiting to buy a book.  A book!  Not a 
movie, not an iPod, but a book!

Joe Esposito