Some ethical issues here. See this report for more. We get web pages almost as easily from France as we do Seattle. But how do these pages last over time. Digital media present severe problems of archiving or long-term storage.
Time binding is a serious problem.
Rag paper books last millenia while floppy disk records are suspect after five years, even with careful storage. Magnetically-encoded records can be swiftly destroyed with any common magnet. See this brief diatribe on telecomms billing practices - where distance does count. Distance makes little difference in the time, cost or speed of getting information. As such, these systems can be instructed to customize, individualize information for each user.