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If one wants to include the manufacturing of ebooks...and it makes sense...then one needs to account for the manufacturing of TRUCKS and WAREHOUSES. While trees are indeed a crop, and renewable, trucks and warehouses are not.
The "first delivery" of the book and the ereader are a wash. Trucks, warehouses...call it a draw. For every OTHER book read on the ebook, there is no equivalent use of trucks or warehouses.
As for electricity...unless one reads in the dark or only during the day, one is going to be using electricity to read a paper book. I love that I can read in the dark and do every night. I'm sure I use less electricity with ebooks than I did with books.
Clearly there are bound to be hundreds and thousands of acres of land that are not going to be needed to produce trees for ebooks...freeing up that land for other uses. That has to be a net positive.
Lee
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