Today, October 15, is Blog Action Day

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

While copyright may seem at first not to be an issue relating to the environment, consider this: every year the book publishing industry consumes an enormous number of trees to produce books (see the Green Press Initiative Web site). While recycling may go a long way to reduce this, think of the barriers presented by current copyright practice, including Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and a plethora of incompatible formats, impeding the acceptance of electronic books as an alternative to paper. Then imagine a world of the future in which these barriers are greatly reduced.