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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I am talking about the marginal cost of producing (ep)-books. The cost of manufacturing ebook devices (or trucks to deliver pbooks) does not enter into the calculation.
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We are circling already. As I said before the calculation is wrong doing only marginal costs. You have to calculate what environment damage you do buy buying an eInk device every X years instead of just buying books.
The question is not, now that I have an eInk device, is it more environment friendly to buy the next book in electronic or in paper format. The question is: Is it more environment friendly to stick with pBooks or to go for eInk devices and eBooks. And this is a question I see as to be complicated enough to be valued in both ways, depending which bias you have, you will likely come out with different results.
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You should also note that there is no such thing as "scientific certainty" about anything. So trying to dismiss my statement as not being "scientifically certain" is specious.
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True enough. Lets just say "in the future devices
will be like this or that", are likely to raise at least my alertness, as how often in the past have we been wrong estimating how the future
will look like?