eText Helps the Environment
ebooks save trees! That is one of the many environmental benefits of digital publishing and reading. A larger list of the environmental benefits of reading ebooks includes:
- saving trees;
- reducing paper consumption;
- saving energy used in book production;
- eliminating packaging materials, and all the energy and cash costs associated with those materials;
- saving fuel used for transporting paper books: from the printing company to the warehouse, and then from the warehouse to the customer;
- eliminating the pollution caused by producing and shipping books;
- reducing the energy, cash costs, and pollution required to dispose of books;
- saving money. These days, money is a "scarce green resource." If the 2 billion books sold in the USA last year had been sold as ebooks — at five dollars less per book — we might have saved about 10 billion dollars.