On: Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books

[mcguire]

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.

[chiefalchemist → mcguire]

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.