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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by mcguire on Sunday December 29, 2019 @02:32PM (#21907916)
I think you may be confusing the e-book reader (which may well have infrastructure behind it) and the e-book itself. The latter is just a file and, modulo DRM, doesn't carry any more legal or infrastructure costs than a physical book.
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Re:Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books by chiefalchemist on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:28PM (#21909026)
So there's no accounting involved with dealing with Anazon? No internal systems to manage digital assets? Etc.?

Those ebooks don't create and maintain themselves. Print is finite. Digital is forever.

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