TL;DR; Found some irrelevant differences between the exaggerated version and the actual history, and I'm going to pretend that everybody believes the ultra-exaggerated version and that they matter.
Or how the author says that bulbs were exchanged in neighborhoods and taverns and such, to brush off the craze as "small scale", and then goes on to say how specialized exchanges emerged in most cities, with experts in such trade etc -- without seeing the contradiction.