So the talks broke down. Americans went back to their multi-car garages and revved up their SUVs. One can almost see the French intelligentsia sniffing over their sagging volumes of fusty Foucault and dreary Derrida. There may, however, be a solution. The moribund American publishing industry should turn seriously green, and not with envy.
Paper is almost half carbon.
Books are carbon bullion. Bookstores and libraries are carbon sequestration banks. The more books we buy, the more miles we can drive. That's a formula that should set publishing's tachometer racing. Buy a book, save the planet.