Micheal Pastore (2009) stated that “eBooks save trees, eBooks eliminate the need for filling up landfills with old books. eBooks save energy, and transportation costs, and reduce the pollution associated with driving and flying books across the country and around the world, and then eBooks eliminate the problem of "unsold books", which are often shredded. In the Netherlands alone, more than one million books are shredded every year and transformed into toilet paper. ( A smart step, but still a waste of energy and resources.)”.
The last factor is save environmental. As a result of eBooks save trees. That is one of the many environmental benefits of digital publishing and reading. A larger list of the environmental benefits of reading eBooks such as saving trees, reducing paper consumption saving energy used in book production, eliminating packaging materials, saving fuel used for transporting paper books, and reducing the energy. Hence, eBook is saved the environment and saved the natural resource.