Myth # 3.
Buying ebooks instead of paper books does not really help the environment.
To quote Mr. Dickens: "You are wonderfully mistaken!" ...
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.
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.)
Electronic publishing saves paper. How many trees are used to produce one week’s worth of paper in a Sunday New York Times newspaper? … One weekly issue of the New York Times consumes 75,000 trees. … One year of Sunday papers produced by the New York Times is responsible for the destruction and consumption of more than 3,900,000 trees.