7/5/2023 0 Comments Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach![]() There is an obvious savings of paper, warehousing, and transportation costs, but also a harder to calculate environmental price of producing, powering, and discarding rapidly obsolescent portable devices and their batteries, with many toxic parts. ![]() I'm not sure whether Callenbach ever expressed an opinion on the sustainability of ebooks and on-demand publishing. Callenbach called his novel "the little book that could," his wife said. After Bantam picked up "Ecotopia" in 1977, Mr. ![]() With money raised from friends, he formed Banyan Tree Books and sold out the first couple of printings. Callenbach was the first to admit that literary style was not the chief merit of the book, which he once described as "half-novel, half-tract." The manuscript was rejected by 25 publishers, who, according to the author, believed that ecology was a passing fad. ![]()
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