Difference between revisions of "Economical and Environmental Issues"
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Global warming and other environmental issues are a hot topic nowadays, and more and more attention is paid on environmental factors. No other industry in the world produces as much environmental burden as paper-based publishing. Millions of trees are cut down every year for paper books, but paper-based publishing doesn’t only mean cutting down trees. It also requires huge amounts of energy and water, produces greenhouse gases and other pollutants, solid waste, chlorine and other toxins. E-books provide environmentally and economically a great solution by reducing paper and ink production, and they can be delivered to customers without distribution costs. | |||
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Revision as of 19:45, 5 March 2007
Description
Global warming and other environmental issues are a hot topic nowadays, and more and more attention is paid on environmental factors. No other industry in the world produces as much environmental burden as paper-based publishing. Millions of trees are cut down every year for paper books, but paper-based publishing doesn’t only mean cutting down trees. It also requires huge amounts of energy and water, produces greenhouse gases and other pollutants, solid waste, chlorine and other toxins. E-books provide environmentally and economically a great solution by reducing paper and ink production, and they can be delivered to customers without distribution costs.
Enablers
- Environmentally conscious people start reading e-books
- Environmental activists have started to pay more attention on printing industry
- Governments set new environmental regulations
- Publishers save costs (paper, ink, distribution costs) when starting to publish more e-books
Inhibitors
- people still prefer printed books
Paradigms
Experts
Timing
- next years
Web Resources
http://blogs.adobe.com/billmccoy/2006/04/for_earth_day_e.html