Reduce Your Carbon Footprint In Portland By Reading An E-Book

Read an E-Book Week is celebrated March 9-15. Reading an E-Book can reduce your carbon footprint, by reducing the negative impact of excess packaging and chemical content in many of the products we purchase. This is not an easy task when it comes to quality reading material. This is were e-books can help. Because they are created electronically, no trees are cut to produce them. No ink is used to put the words on the page. No fossil fuel is used to run presses or power trucks to move them around the country. No storage facilities need to be heated to store boxes of books until they are shipped to bookstores.

E-books are delivered to the end user electronically. They are read electronically. They are disposed of with a push of a delete button, without ever taking up room in a landfill. Consider that it takes 12 trees to produce a ton of printing paper--24 trees for higher grade writing paper. A mature tree can produce as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year. Up to 35% of books printed for consumers (down from nearly 60% several years ago) are never read. They are returned to the publisher and end up in landfills.

Print-based publishers were at first frightened of the capabilities of this new medium but with a new understanding of the industry, they now add an electronic version to many of their new publications. Join the E-Book revolution in Portland by purchasing an E-Book, you are now in a position to show how many people are ready for a new age of literature!