I've been thinking about this loads. There is a push/pull btwn reviewers and publishers. I'm sympathetic to both sides but what I really care about is that the earth is burning and wasting a whole bunch of books that cannot & will not be sold,the carbon footprint of printing 1/2 https://twitter.com/NatashaBardon/status/1280960798773387265

the carbon footprint of mailing books that will never be used is more than complicity. We have to think about the environmental impact of all our actions and what we are willing to do to the earth for convenience.

The ideal solution is digital proofs, while there is a carbon footprint for internet activity, it is small in comparison. Perhaps publicists should make note of all the reviewers who need physical proofs and send them print outs or recyclable proofs, and equally recipients...

... could be more proactive. Say they read the first page of a digital proof and want it in physical form because they will actually read more, then they can request.

I cannot comment on audiobooks since we've only just started doing them but I'm interested in this thread. If we can do our very best by the planet, maybe we can keep reading for generations to come.