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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 01:49 AM EDT |
You are still buying a copy of a book when you buy it in digital
form. Unlike movies and music, where you are just licensing it.
This Wired article quotes the Kindle
Store's terms of use as stating: Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to
you by the Content Provider.
It would be interesting to
calculate how many time you could read an e-book before you matched the energy
that is used in making the paper for a printed book. Then you have the energy
used to make the ink. And I could probably read e-books the rest of my life
before I used up the energy that goes into printing a paper
book.
I don't know how it would effect your calculation, but such
an accounting would need to note the embedded energy used to
create the device used for reading. (I believe this story was specifically
about the Kindle.) While no expert on this, my understanding is that in many of
today's digital devices the embedded energy is significant and increasing with
each passing generation.
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