<i>the mistaken impression that the price should gravitate toward the cost of moving and storing the bits rather than the value in their particular arrangement</i><p>I disagree that the impression was mistaken. I also disagree that it was rhetoric about digitization that produced such an impression.<p>Even the word "publisher" means distributor, not content creator (or bit arranger, if you will). Consumers therefore have a reasonable expectation that the value they're paying for is the <i>delivery</i> of the content to them in a convenient fashion.