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There is a bit more to publish/subscribe and client/server (or remote-procedure-call) than just the direction in which messages flow.
A good paper that discusses the main benefits of the publish/subscribe communication style and compares it to traditional remote procedure call is The Many Faces of Publish/Subscribe by Patrick Eugster et al.