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How to Go Green: Books (for Authors)
[by The Green Guide Girls™, Cindy Katz & Jennifer S. Wilkov]
A book is published somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, writes Gabriel Zaid in “How Many Books.” Fifty years after the introduction of television, says Zaid, the number of titles published worldwide each year has increased fourfold from 250,000 to 1 million--from 100 books for every million humans to 167. That translates into a lot of natural resources that are required to make these books, and this process clearly has a huge impact on the environment and our planet.
As we wrote in our book, The Green Guide Girls: Guide to Book Publishing, we know that everything begins in that moment of decision, that one breath when you say to your publisher, book manufacturer, printer, and book consultant, “would you like to publish my book?” We also know that in the same breath there is one question that has the power to transform the industry as we know it: “how do we make THAT book ‘green’?”™
The information in this Green Guide was provided by The Green Guide Girls™ from their book, The Green Guide Girls: Guide to Book Publishing.
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