Publishing Industry Promotes "Green" Efforts

Posted by Brittany Lavin
Published On Sep 27, 2014

VP of Author Services, John F. Harnish, Ocotber 27, 2010:

During the last century, billions of tons of unsold books, magazines and newspapers were plunged into dismal dumps and landfills. These wasted publications poisoned the surrounding earth with their toxic inks, dyes, toner, and papers—this is the nasty carbon footprint the publishing industry has been leaving behind, as the imprint of slowly decaying remnants of once inspired expressiveness.

Four decades ago, the first annual observation of Earth Day generated early sparks of awareness about the harmful impact caused by dumping massive amounts of printed paper into overflowing landfills.

At the turn of the 21st century, greening publishers began to use evolutionary printing processes to effectively reduce the number of books printed to align with the total count of books actually sold. Environmentally friendly paper mills developed cost-effective methodologies to manufacture high quality paper, using significant amounts of recycled paper.

Now, many publishing companies are teaming up with green foundations such as Eco-libris in order to better our environment.

Eco-Libris is a green company working with book lovers, bookstores, publishers and authors worldwide to green up the book industry by promoting the adoption of green practices, balancing out books by planting trees, and supporting green books.

Book festivals are also jumping on the green initiative by promoting green practices.

The 2011 Green Book Festival has issued the call for entries to its annual competition honoring books that contribute to greater understanding, respect and positive action on the changing worldwide environment.

The 2011 Green Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publishers.

For more information check out: http://www.greenbookfestival.com 

Enjoy often...John

-John F. Harnish

Topics: ecolibris, green, green publishing, infinity publishing, infinity, self publishing, books, self publishing companies, publishing, publishing industry, publishing vs. self-publishing

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