Tonight at the stroke of midnight, bookstores will be open for business, selling the final installment of Harry Potter, but there is more to cheer here than just the culmination of the saga. According to National Post, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows may be the greenest book in publishing history, because 16 publishing houses are using recycled or ancient forest friendly (AFF) paper to print this book. For New Yorkers, that is the equivalent to 200,000 trees, roughly 2.5 Central Parks' worth.
The push to print green started with Raincoast Books in Canada, who now print 98% of their titles on AFF paper. With projected sale figures in the millions, going green to print the final installment of Harry Potter is a wonderful example to the rest of the publishing industry,and one picked up by American publisher Scholastic, who, for the first time, will also be printing the book on greener paper.
Will you be reading The Deathly Hallows this weekend? Do you feel better about reading it, knowing that it is printed on recycled/AFF paper?
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Am I the only person who has never read a single line of the whole Harry Potter saga?
Good that it's printed on environmentally friendly paper, though.
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Sol, you're not alone.
Nothing against it... just didn't bother when the series started, and once it became The Defining Cultural Phenomenon of the New Millenium, my "I'm too edgy to follow the trend" sensors kicked in.
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Me too!!! My ex was far tooooo into the books and I have never been one for anything sci-fi or fantasy.Give me a grity novel about unsavory North Londoners by Martin Amis any day! For the purpose of full disclosure though...as soon as the leaked copy ended up on line I did skim the last few pages just find out if in fact she did kill him off.
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There's actually an instructional on "How to Prepare for Deathly Hollows". Hilarious.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2064802_prepare-deathly-hallows.html
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Wende, Miss Lusckster... I was actually thinking that when my boy grows older, I'll HAVE to read it to him, so I'm just putting it off for later :) But I'm with you on the da vinci code.
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