Rise in price of paper

Back? The future of books

Description:

Traditional books are printed on paper, which can be made from rags, grasses and mainly from wood and timber, and thus the price of paper is directly linked to that of wood. At the moment the price of paper is fairly low and the availability is high. But paper might not always be a commodity product or as cheap and available as it is today. A situation where this happens might be unavoidable and as a result producing anything that has paper as its main resource, like books, will see a decrease in profit. This in turn will most likely force publishers to drive up prices of books making paperless books like eBooks more interesting and profitable.

Enablers:

Environmental activists actions

Because of excessive logging, deforestation is a huge environmental concern; it is one of the major causes of the greenhouse effect and global warming and is causing changes to the habit leading to animal death and creation of wastelands and deserts. Trees are important because not only do they provide us with oxygen but they also remove toxic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Environmental activists like Greenpeace are everywhere in the world trying to limit logging and save forests from being completely obliterated. If they would succeed in this the availability of wood would go down and prices would go up.

Excessive logging

3. A stop to illegal logging.

4. Forest fires.

5. Climate changes.

Inhibitors:

1. New forest fire prevention techniques.

Paradigms:

1.