{"id":5480,"date":"2010-04-23T09:03:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2010-04-23T09:04:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:04:33","slug":"environmental-impact-of-books-versus-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5480","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Impact of Books versus eBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s<strong> Earth Day<\/strong> celebrations included this <strong><a title=\"Are eBooks Green?\" href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/political-bookworm\/2010\/04\/environmental_impact_of_e-book.html\" target=\"_self\">article<\/a><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0in <strong><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/strong> by Political Bookworm Steven Levingston that begins to compare the environmental cost of switching to eBook Readers from paperback and hard cover books.\u00c2\u00a0 The eBook publishers tout the move to digital as more environmentally friendly, sidestepping the need to harvest the millions of trees required to feed the world&#8217;s appetite for paperbacks. However, as the article points out, the use of technology in\u00c2\u00a0eBook Readers raises the specter of toxic waste.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, the article &#8216;begins&#8217; the comparison.\u00c2\u00a0eBook Readers need time\u00c2\u00a0on the market for their environmental impact to be accurately calculated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Earth Day celebrations included this article\u00c2\u00a0in The Washington Post by Political Bookworm Steven Levingston that begins to compare the environmental cost of switching to eBook Readers from paperback and hard cover books.\u00c2\u00a0 The eBook publishers tout the move to digital as more environmentally friendly, sidestepping the need to harvest the millions of trees required &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5480\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}