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Old 01-28-2014, 10:33 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Surely that's only true if the paper books that you would otherwise have bought would not exist as a result of you having bought the reader. Is that a valid assumption?
What about in cases like mine, where every single book I buy would need to be transported all across Europe (considering that also for years before e-reading, I bought nearly all my paper books from Amazon, BookDepository or UK sellers on eBay)?

The books still exist (print numbers will go down eventually, but I assume that takes some time until publishers have a good idea how many paper vs ebooks they tend to sell and adjust print numbers accordingly) and obviously planes still fly and cargo trucks run also without my books on them, but overall, I'd assume that people importing fewer goods from abroad can't have a negative effect.
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