Comments on: e-Reader or Print Media which is Greener? Join the Debate….. http://www.techiteasy.org/2010/02/09/e-reader-or-print-which-is-greener-join-the-debate/ A Technology and Business Weblog provided to You by a Global Group of Friends. Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Inprogress http://www.techiteasy.org/2010/02/09/e-reader-or-print-which-is-greener-join-the-debate/#comment-9208 Inprogress Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:30:25 +0000 http://www.techiteasy.org/?p=2782#comment-9208 The only problem I forsee with the whole argument of paper over e-book readers is that businesses that produce these technologies has to invest money constantly, and develope and produce new models constantly to stay afloat. Every year they have to bring a new model to the market, not because the older model isn't working, but because the consumer wants something that looks new. This means that the same will happen as it is happening now with cars, people don't buy a new car cause they need one, they buy it cause it looks better. So we will end up with tons of e-waste every year, and tonnes of e-book readers in landfill...at least paper biodegrades. I'm all for e-readers, wish I could afford one, but the right attitude has to be maintained with them. Replace it when its broken, and have the old reader properly dismantled and recycled. Just a though, my opinion. The only problem I forsee with the whole argument of paper over e-book readers is that businesses that produce these technologies has to invest money constantly, and develope and produce new models constantly to stay afloat. Every year they have to bring a new model to the market, not because the older model isn't working, but because the consumer wants something that looks new. This means that the same will happen as it is happening now with cars, people don't buy a new car cause they need one, they buy it cause it looks better. So we will end up with tons of e-waste every year, and tonnes of e-book readers in landfill…at least paper biodegrades.

I'm all for e-readers, wish I could afford one, but the right attitude has to be maintained with them. Replace it when its broken, and have the old reader properly dismantled and recycled.

Just a though, my opinion.

]]> By: THE WATCHER http://www.techiteasy.org/2010/02/09/e-reader-or-print-which-is-greener-join-the-debate/#comment-7051 THE WATCHER Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:00:09 +0000 http://www.techiteasy.org/?p=2782#comment-7051 ATTENTION: If you look closely at that CLEANTECH Report, you will see that it is totally invalid because it claims that you will save "1,074 kg of CO2 if replacing three books a month for four years." I've read several surveys and studies that showed that Americans read an average of about 3 or 4 books a YEAR, not per month. I love to read as much as possible, but can only make it through one book per month. Besides, I rarely buy brand new books. ATTENTION: If you look closely at that CLEANTECH Report, you will see that it is totally invalid because it claims that you will save "1,074 kg of CO2 if replacing three books a month for four years." I've read several surveys and studies that showed that Americans read an average of about 3 or 4 books a YEAR, not per month. I love to read as much as possible, but can only make it through one book per month. Besides, I rarely buy brand new books.

]]> By: Vincent van Wylick http://www.techiteasy.org/2010/02/09/e-reader-or-print-which-is-greener-join-the-debate/#comment-6160 Vincent van Wylick Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:20:53 +0000 http://www.techiteasy.org/?p=2782#comment-6160 I think what absolutely has to be included in this discussion is that e-readers do not only replace books and newspapers, but will (eventually) replace the need for all paper. And the environmental cost of that has to be calculated then too. I think what absolutely has to be included in this discussion is that e-readers do not only replace books and newspapers, but will (eventually) replace the need for all paper. And the environmental cost of that has to be calculated then too.

]]> By: Vincent van Wylick http://www.techiteasy.org/2010/02/09/e-reader-or-print-which-is-greener-join-the-debate/#comment-6161 Vincent van Wylick Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:20:53 +0000 http://www.techiteasy.org/?p=2782#comment-6161 I think what absolutely has to be included in this discussion is that e-readers do not only replace books and newspapers, but will (eventually) replace the need for all paper. And the environmental cost of that has to be calculated then too. I think what absolutely has to be included in this discussion is that e-readers do not only replace books and newspapers, but will (eventually) replace the need for all paper. And the environmental cost of that has to be calculated then too.

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