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Originally Posted by kaan
Actually it does.
If you believe in the supply and demand theory, there is now a lower demand of paper. That means there are less need for trees to be cut down, that there would have been if the 100.000 ebooks had been sold as paper books.
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Unless you think that the fact that Dan Brown's publisher
shipped 100,000 fewer hardcover books somehow results in a temporal ripple into the past that informs some country's forest-industry that they only need to fulfill 98% of their current month's order to the paper industry?
Even if
future demand is (minimally?) impacted by Dan Brown's publisher's failure to
sell and ship the books
they already made from 100,000 hardcover books' worth of trees... none of this says anything about trees that had to be (or did not have to be) cut down in the past... only future trees may be saved... but frankly I have difficulty concocting an explanation as to *precisely* how in the short or medium term.
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