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Are ebooks green(er)?
As more devices and platforms roll out, this article from NZ asks if there are any real indications that ebooks will be green(er) than print books.
Boomerang Books claims carbon neutrality
Australian online bookstore Boomerang Books claims to have become Australia's first carbon-neutral online bookstore. The company has stated that ‘from May 2010, Boomerang Books will be sub...
Random to print all local titles on FSC paper
Random House Australia (RHA) has announced that from this month all of its Australian books will be printed on paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). ‘At Random House Australia...
UK pulps 77 million books a year
Up to 77 million returned books are pulped in the UK every year, according to this article -- which also claims that 'Nielsen Bookscan has found that of 86,000 new titles published in the UK in 2009, ...
WBN subscribers plant yet more trees!
Bookseller+Publisher Online would like to thank subscribers for helping us plant another 73 native seedlings with Trees for Life in the past three months. In 2008 Bookseller+Publisher Online...
US book trade aims for 20% emissions cut
The US Book Industry Environmental Council announced aggressive goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: to reduce the US book industry’s greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2020 (from a 2006 basel...
WBN subscribers plant trees!
Bookseller+Publisher Online would like to thank subscribers for helping us plant another 76 native seedlings with Trees for Life. In 2008 Bookseller+Publisher Online moved to an online renew...
How green is my e-reader?
In this column from the Guardian, Naomi Alderman ponders if e-readers have less of an environmental impact than printed books.
Thank you subscribers -- another 79 trees planted
Bookseller+Publisher Online would like to thank subscribers for helping us plant another 79 native seedlings with Trees for Life. In 2008 Bookseller+Publisher Online moved to an online renew...
In brief
Donoughue enters the blogospherePeter Donoughue, former managing director of John Wiley and Sons in Australia, has created a new blog Pub Date Critical (click here). In his first posts the former...
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