One Orignally From The USA Today says small and growing number of authors are asking publishers to print their books on environmentally friendly paper.
While no one keeps count, well-known writers, including Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, are part of the trend. It reflects a growing green movement in the entertainment world that includes musicians such as U2 and Bonnie Raitt, who are packaging their CDs in recycled materials.
I think this is great
and I think that authors should also lend their support to other measures to maintain the integrity of their work…, i.e., for example, not sell their books to every on-line discounter, not allow them to be resold used almost immediately after their release, etc.
Several authors (many of the same mentioned in the article, such as Barbara Kingsolver) have been staunch supporters of independent bookstores and of public libraries, and they need to do even more to turn the public’s attention to unfair situations in the area of book distribution economics.