From original design to marketing, the entire publishing process must be rethought to publish books that meet environmentally friendly criteria. Eco-publishing is a method of creating publications that adhere to environmental standards.
Calculating, reducing, and conveying the environmental implications of publications is a difficult task. The calculation, minimization, and transmission of impacts are all required in digital books, just as they are in the production of paper books.
Offsetting measures can be considered once these have been lowered, decreased, and reduced again to the lowest possible levels, albeit they should never be used as a green light for failing to minimize impacts. Finally, eco-publishing necessitates agreement among the many value chains that make up the book ecosystem.
When it comes to the environmental impact of digital publication, various issues must be considered. To begin with, practically all paper publications are made with electronic equipment, making them partially digital in that both the manufacturing process and the way they are used contain components of digitalization. The design phase of a paper book, for example, accounts for 9.6% of the book's environmental effect.
However, it is at this point, when product design decisions are made, that it is feasible to limit the impact. And this is what the BookDAPer.cat calculator is for: calculating the environmental impact (carbon footprint, resource consumption, and other environmental indicators), assisting in implementing mitigation measures and informing the reading public.
Meanwhile, reading on digital devices accounts for over 10% of total reading worldwide and steadily increases. According to a survey conducted by Libranda, the e-book market in Spain would grow by 37% in 2020. The person who chooses to read books on digital devices has a wide range of characteristics, but e-books have been shown to draw new readers to the habit of reading.
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