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Tangential, and very anecdotal, but I've been seeing more books on the BART. While almost everyone is hunched over their phones of course, it feels like there's a growing number reading a paperback. (Oddly? it's been a while since I saw a kindle.)
Sort of on topic but I wonder about the CO2e or energy cost of books. My friend recently opened a book store and the supply chain seems crazy: - Make paper somewhere - Ship paper to China - Print the book in China - Ship the book back across the ocean to the publisher's distribution center - Ship the book the bookstore to shelve - Ship the book back to the publisher if it doesn't sell The CO2e of all of these steps m…
China has become popular in recent years because a number of printers offer special editions - sprayed/deckled edges, high quality hard binding - which authors can sell as high-margin items to genre fiction collectors.
Generally, the print industry is incredibly destructive. In addition to all the shipping, it literally eats forests and uses huge quantities of water.
Sort of on topic but I wonder about the CO2e or energy cost of books. My friend recently opened a book store and the supply chain seems crazy: - Make paper somewhere - Ship paper to China - Print the book in China - Ship the book back across the ocean to the publisher's distribution center - Ship the book the bookstore to shelve - Ship the book back to the publisher if it doesn't sell The CO2e of all of these steps m…
It's nice to own books. Read them multiple times, dog-ear the pages, scribble in the margins, risk reading them in the pool. But for the price conscious general reader just inter-library loan. If you want to buy To Kill A Mockingbird or The Hobbit be my guest, but any library in the US would have a few copies of those. Public libraries are awesome. Use it or lose it.
Responding to the dead child comment: that's what common paperbacks are for. Don't don't mess up a nice hardcover or anything rare.
"EBITDA serves as a standard profit metric across companies and industries" No it doesn't! EBITDA is not standardized metric. It's not defined under GAAP or IFRS. Companies calculate it differently, often adjusting it in ways that make their results look better. If you want a 'standard profit metric', use net income. That one is actually defined under GAAP and IFRS.
The standardised measures can be manipulated too.
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It's nice to own books. Read them multiple times, dog-ear the pages, scribble in the margins, risk reading them in the pool. But for the price conscious general reader just inter-library loan. If you want to buy To Kill A Mockingbird or The Hobbit be my guest, but any library in the US would have a few copies of those. Public libraries are awesome. Use it or lose it.
> It's nice to own books. Read them multiple times, dog-ear the pages, scribble in the margins, risk reading them in the pool. Responding to the dead child comment: that's what common paperbacks are for. Don't don't mess up a nice hardcover or anything rare.
Sort of on topic but I wonder about the CO2e or energy cost of books. My friend recently opened a book store and the supply chain seems crazy: - Make paper somewhere - Ship paper to China - Print the book in China - Ship the book back across the ocean to the publisher's distribution center - Ship the book the bookstore to shelve - Ship the book back to the publisher if it doesn't sell The CO2e of all of these steps m…
That's pretty much it, although the US and EU do have local printers and paper sources, so not everything goes through China. China has become popular in recent years because a number of printers offer special editions - sprayed/deckled edges, high quality hard binding - which authors can sell as high-margin items to genre fiction collectors. Generally, the print industry is incredibly destructive. In addition to all…
Although most of my book purchases have been kids books or textbooks. Maybe that is the reason.