First, no one says you can't resell an ebook, or give it away or do anything else you would with a print book, as long as you immediately delete it from your own computers. I share my ebook library with my husband regularly, because it's stored online with the vendor. So, I'm not violating copyright by making a copy.
Most devoted ebook readers use handheld devices, which work with rechargeable batteries. Unless you have actual data comparing the amount of energy used by said devices compared to sitting with a print book running a lamp (unless, of course, you restrict your reading to daylight hours) that particular item has no validity.
Do those devices need to be replaced from time to time? Of course, they do. On the other hand, that would be the case whether they were used to read ebooks or not. Even dedicated ebook readers like Kindle offer other functions, so that argument is a little specious as well. Maybe there are a few gadget addicts who have to replace their toy when a new version comes out but they're a minority.
The fact of the matter is that ebooks haven't had sufficient chops to deserve having any actual studies done to determine whether they have a positive, negative or neutral environmental impact, and until that's done anything said on the matter is speculation.
Print books, on the other hand, as you've noted, use paper and chemicals. They also have to be shipped in trucks and planes and ships. And they are, in the traditional business model, shipped "on loan." A bookseller can order as many or as few as they wish, keep them for a month or six then pack them up and ship them back.
Only they don't usually go back to the place they were shipped from. They go to a receiving warehouse, where they're sorted. Then the ones good enough to be sold are shipped again to the shipping warehouse...and the cycle begins again.
An inventory-free publisher who agrees to accept this silliness is usually given two options. They can let the books be destroyed, or they can pay to have them shipped to them. Except it's not the original return that gets returned; the printer does a completely new copy...and trashes the original.
Traditionally published books in hardcover or trade paperback may eventually be sold to "remainder houses," which are companies that buy unwanted books for pennies on the dollar then sell them cheaply. Mass market paperbacks, on the other hand, aren't returned. The bookseller tears off the front cover of each unwanted book and sends that in for their credit. The books go to the landfill, because it's illegal to sell them once the covers are gone. They even say so in the books.
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It's impossible to say definitely which is greener, there's just not enough hard evidence out there.
I've made a guesstimate though and come down in favour of p-books. My article and explaination is here:
http://tinyurl.com/6zkh7q
If only the comparison were that simple.
First, no one says you can't resell an ebook, or give it away or do anything else you would with a print book, as long as you immediately delete it from your own computers. I share my ebook library with my husband regularly, because it's stored online with the vendor. So, I'm not violating copyright by making a copy.
Most devoted ebook readers use handheld devices, which work with rechargeable batteries. Unless you have actual data comparing the amount of energy used by said devices compared to sitting with a print book running a lamp (unless, of course, you restrict your reading to daylight hours) that particular item has no validity.
Do those devices need to be replaced from time to time? Of course, they do. On the other hand, that would be the case whether they were used to read ebooks or not. Even dedicated ebook readers like Kindle offer other functions, so that argument is a little specious as well. Maybe there are a few gadget addicts who have to replace their toy when a new version comes out but they're a minority.
The fact of the matter is that ebooks haven't had sufficient chops to deserve having any actual studies done to determine whether they have a positive, negative or neutral environmental impact, and until that's done anything said on the matter is speculation.
Print books, on the other hand, as you've noted, use paper and chemicals. They also have to be shipped in trucks and planes and ships. And they are, in the traditional business model, shipped "on loan." A bookseller can order as many or as few as they wish, keep them for a month or six then pack them up and ship them back.
Only they don't usually go back to the place they were shipped from. They go to a receiving warehouse, where they're sorted. Then the ones good enough to be sold are shipped again to the shipping warehouse...and the cycle begins again.
An inventory-free publisher who agrees to accept this silliness is usually given two options. They can let the books be destroyed, or they can pay to have them shipped to them. Except it's not the original return that gets returned; the printer does a completely new copy...and trashes the original.
Traditionally published books in hardcover or trade paperback may eventually be sold to "remainder houses," which are companies that buy unwanted books for pennies on the dollar then sell them cheaply. Mass market paperbacks, on the other hand, aren't returned. The bookseller tears off the front cover of each unwanted book and sends that in for their credit. The books go to the landfill, because it's illegal to sell them once the covers are gone. They even say so in the books.
Getting the picture?