We should abandon the practice of printing books and resort to using E-books

I shall now proceed to my rebuttal, followed by an addendum.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________RubuttalsBooks are cheaper than E-readers *Note that I have not yet mentioned E-readers. Certainly, books are much cheaper than E-readers, but the E-books themselves are much cheaper than books. It is possible to get a 20 dollar book for 5 - 10 dollars. This is because it is much cheaper to produce E-books than it is E-readers. **Furthermore, if the world was to adopt the use of E-books and abandoning printed books, the costs for E-books would be EVEN CHEAPER, some amounting to less than a dollar. ***Now, concerning the costs of E-readers. A quick search on the web found that a Kindle Wifi, 6" Display (the type that most people buy) costs 69$. A 2 GB Kindle can hold around 1400 books. A Harry Potter book costs around 15$ - 20$, depending on which book in the set. Some even cost over 20$. The average Harry Potter E-book costs around 8$. The average American reads 17 books a year. Note that this is limited to the United States and there are countries in which their average is higher. This means that a person would spend 240$ a year on books while an E-book user will spend 136$, assuming that they did not borrow any of these books from a library. Therefore, the E-book user SPENDS 104$ LESS. Now if you subttract the cost for the E-reader, which is 69$, you get 35$. Therefore, by buying an E-reader, you spend 35$ less in a year! And after a year, the 69$ IS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR, so you spend 104$ less every year after that!http://www.amazon.com...****Also, note that in Economics, there is a Law of Demand. The Law of Demand states that when there's more demand for a product, the price for the product will decrease. Currently, only 5% of readers read E-books by using E-readers. If the world was to adopt the use of E-books instead of printed books, 100% of readers would use E-readers, therefore it's plausible to say that THE PRICE FOR E-READERS WILL DECREASE BY 95%, therefore Kindles that cost 69$ would cost 5$.you will be relying on your E-readers battery *Battery should'nt be an issue. A Kindle 2 (which is outdated because they have better, newer Kindles now) can last 2 weeks with wireless turned off, that should be plenty of time for you to get down from a mountain and back into civilization. Also, they have recently manufactured a SOLAR POWERED KINDLE. Furthermore, Inductive Charging (aka Wireless Charging) has recently been integrated into our society. It makes it possible for people to charge their electronic devices without a chord. Economists predict that within 15 years, whole cities will be converted this way so that your electronics will be charged ALWAYS as long as you are in the city. http://en.wikipedia.org...;of course this can be refuted by saying books are just as, if not more prone to weathering/damage/tears or terrain issues *Con has refuted himself, saving me the energy to refute him and rendering his previous point (about E-readers being easily damaged) useless and unneccessary. However, I will still refute, it. My phone, for an example, is a Sony Xperia. It is waterproof and able to survive a fall from a five story building. I'm sure they can do the same with an E-reader. It is a lot more convenient(Also much cheaper) For everyone to have a printed hard copy to use as a reference for their curricular studies which you can take home as you please, mark and highlight. *You can take an E-reader home as you please as well. In fact, it would be MORE CONVINIENT to carry a light-weight device home than to carry multiple heavy books. Also, it is possible for many E-readers to mark and highlight their text. Not only that, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE TO UNDO THEIR MARKS AND HIGHLIGHTS AS WELL. My AP English teacher teaches us with an ipad, where all of this is possible, and he says it's much more convinient because it's lighter and better organized. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________AddendumI have refuted every point Con statements about books being more convinient and more cheaper. Con has also refuted his own statement about E-readers being easily damaged. __________________________________________________________________________I shall now make 2 points:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________By adopting the use of E-readers and abandoning printed books, we are helping our environment - One 10 inch diameter tree makes sixty 100 paged books. In the United States alone, around 300,000 new books are published. Each published book will have hundreds or thousands of copies made to be distributed. Note that these are just books, EXCLUDING MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS. Note also that this is JUST IN THE UNITED STATES. -In our world of environmental crisis, one of the biggest problems we face is deforestation and the lack of trees, which are neccessary for many ecosystems to survive and thrive. By not printing books, I estimate that we can save around 50 million trees each year from being cut, therefore preventing and prolonging environmental disaster. http://bhplnjbookgroup.blogspot.com...;http://en.wikipedia.org...;Adopting this policy of E-reading encourages and guarantees econmical and technological benefits-By adopting this policy of E-reading, governments are forced, if not encouraged, to make beneficial adaptations to society such as the Wireless Charging previously mentioned. -This benefits the technological world because it allows for more possibility. For an example, a problem in mobile robotic technology is that the robots they make are highly energy dependent, and must always be plugged into a power source or have a very strong battery, which runs out over time. If they were plugged in, their mobility is limited. Wireless Charging easily solves this. -Because this is in the economics genre, I will discuss about economics a lot. In economics, the three factors of production are: land, labor, and capital. Land refers to not only the site of production, but also natural resources such as oil, coal, and wood. Wireless Charging benefits the economy because it provides a better quality of physical capital and more land. Physical capital are things such as computers and other machinery. It provides more land because now that no wood is used for books, there is more wood available for the production of other products. And it does not affect the factor of reading at all because of E-books.I will explain how this policy will increase and improve human capital in future rounds.