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A couple of years ago the German government funded a study to analyze the environmental impact (direct and indirect) of e-books and concluded that e-books are not as environmentally safe as some may suspect. In fact, the study claimed that e-books can cause significant indirect ecological damage through the required use of energy (for instance, when you use your PC to browse e-book catalogs, to download and transfer e-books, or when you use wireless for transfer (e.g. EVDO)).
I attached the study. Most of it is in German (go figure).
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