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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
There's nothing "efficient" about a paper book. It forces us to cut down forests, it consumes huge amounts of energy to be produced, shipped and stored, it takes up valuable space, it rots, and it eventually gets landfilled, adding to our carbon load. And each copy costs the same as the last to produce.
The only reason it's "cheap" is that the costs of the environmental damage and cleanup are put into your taxes, not added to the cost of the book.
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I know you are well read on these things but are you really sure? I thought books was renewable and not at all environmentally expensive. How much energy to produce one book? My intuition think it is not huge.