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Originally Posted by markbot
If governments in the developed world are serious about environmental conservation, they should seriously consider a 20% tax on new paper books in order to benefit the adoption of ebooks. Ebooks take a lower toll on the environment.
This would get publishers to start pushing ebooks more than hardcovers, which are a COMPLETE WASTE of paper, energy, and space.
The tax funds would go to libraries to purchase ebooks.
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Like the lottery tax funds go to the education system?
How much electricity and other resources does keeping servers, routers, and all the other necessary equipment just to make those e-books available 24/7 require? Especially since a majority of the electricity in the U.S. is still produced from coal...and we all know how enviro-friendly that is.
What happens when the power goes out long-term...say due to a massive solar flare or some other natural disaster? Then people won't be able to read at all...
Another tax on ANYTHING is stupid. Maybe the Government should tax people that drive red cars, eat meat and hell let's really stick it to the people that do not grow their own vegetables...trucking stuff halfway around the world or the country takes it's toll on the environment too...
