Economical and Environmental Issues

Description

Environmental issues are hot topic nowadays, and more and more attention is paid on environmental factors. No other industry in the world produces as much environmental burden as paper-based publishing. Millions of trees are cut down every year for paper books, but paper-based publishing doesn’t only mean cutting down trees. It also requires huge amounts of energy and water, produces greenhouse gases and other pollutants, solid waste, chlorine and other toxins. E-books provide environmentally and economically a great solution by reducing paper and ink production, and they can be delivered to customers without distribution costs.

Enablers

- Environmentally conscious people start reading e-books
- Environmental activists have started to pay more attention on printing industry
- Governments set new environmental regulations
- Publishers save costs (paper, ink, distribution costs) when starting to publish more e-books

Inhibitors

- people still prefer printed books

Timing

- next years

Web Resources

http://blogs.adobe.com/billmccoy/2006/04/for_earth_day_e.html