Digitized publishing stands to revolutionize the industry as surely as Schuster’s returns policy did almost eighty years ago. Electronic books, delivered as digital downloads or as files to be printed as books on demand, eliminate the headache, expense, and waste of a warehouse and offer a reprieve for the environment, which customers completely disregard as they participate in an industry that permits the felling, in Canada alone, of approximately 200,000 more trees than are necessary to support actual sales.
– Noah Richler in “Turning the Page.” Published by The Walrus.
