Thread: 5%, or 100,000 copies, of "The Lost Symbol" were sold as e-books
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Old 09-22-2009, 04:49 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by kaan View Post
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.
I'm with Ahi on this, if they went in expecting it to be business as usual, then they had already cut down the trees, made the paper, printed and bound the extra books, and will just sit on them till they sell. It'll be a long time before reduced paper demand via a change in book sales actually effects paper output. Books aren't the only destination for paper anyway.
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