[LINK] E-books: a quick calculation

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:42 AM 7/02/2009, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>It's feasible that there's no advantage to e-books at all - even
>excluding the question of other kinds of environmental damage, such as
>toxic metals in the waste stream.

What about the 40% of print runs that are pulped? That must be part 
of the equation, a big part. Waste is one of the major issues in 
print publishing, as well as transport of returned unsold books = fuel.

Plus the stores themselves and their storage of product. Lights? 
heating/cooling?

I reckon the jury's still out.

Jan


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