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Green Books
By Rick | December 18, 2007
Some users/proponents of ebooks espouse the advantages of soft copies over “dead tree” versions of books from an environmental standpoint. I have no idea whether ebooks are “greener” overall once you’ve factored in what goes in to producing the reader, the wireless transmissions, etc., etc. But, it did occur to me that people used to predict that we’d use far less paper with the advent of the computer, when in fact I believe the opposite is true. Computers made it so easy to revise and reprint that many modern offices and homes have never gone through so much paper before. Is it possible that the same effect will be spawned by ebooks? Will more hard copy books be sold as a result of people finding themselves exposed to more authors and texts electronically in their spare moments?
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