Thread: How many books have you read on your ereader?
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Old 12-31-2018, 12:51 PM   #16
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Is there any environmental impact? The reader would still be manufactured, and the paper book printed, irrespective of whether or not you personally bought them.
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
There is in the aggregate in the long term. Future books will be printed and devices created based on sales trends over time.
I thought aggregate impact was strongly implied. I assume the request in the OP was to get a sense (via sampling) what the aggregate might be without necessarily actually quantifying the impact of a single reader, single ebook, or single paper book.
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