Oh I see, they mistaken thought the title was “No, MORE Plastic!”
They’re saying Boo-urns!
I don’t understand why some books are wrapped in plastic at all. Like is it to protect the cover? Prevent people from reading it at the book store? Some weird contract with a vendor that requires a percentage of books be wrapped? A quirk of the shop that printed the book?
It makes zero sense.
No. More. Plasticccc? Whelp, there goes my new hip and wheel chair and pain here I come!
wouldnt you want to argue for the reduction of consumer plastic, then, so the rest of this super limited resource can be saved for medical and scientific purposes?
I did mention that plastic water bottles and other such consumer level disposable plastics aren’t really required. Though the alternatives are much heavier and often bulkier than their plastic counterparts. Making them more difficult and costly to ship. And yeas, that includes basic food stuffs.
Somehow I doubt hips and wheelchairs are among the top offenders
I dunno, friend. Maybe the title doesn’t contain the entire contents of the book.
The title most certainly doesn’t contain the whole book. But it does contain the whole belief of the author.
How did he pick out the publisher… Just whoever was offering the best deal?
The way publishing industry has been for a very long time, authors (especially first time ones) don’t get to pick whoever pays the best deal. Just whoever pays the first.
Edit: Also, theoretically, publishers should accommodate author wishes once a publication contract has been made. Actually not unheard of that a publisher would do something cool for their up and coming star. But this? Sloppiness on the publisher’s part, plain and simple.
That’s a typo, it should read: “No. More plastic!”
I shouldn’t have this ALA logo here either
It was a typo, he meant: No, more plastic!
Lionel Hutz, Esq
Free consolation? No, money down!
Better get rid of this bar association sticker too.
Plot twist: it was corn starch based.
that’s still bad though. it requires petroleum based processes to grow the corn and then convert the starch into a plastic like substance when the book could have just not been shrink wrapped. i get that you’re joking, and i’m being pedantic, but not enough people realize bioplastics are not the solution, they’re a gap measure, like EVs, and i’m usingeyour comment as a soapbox
I guess they could have been wrapped in bulk, but I wouldn’t say you can ship books around without any protection.
It could have been an e book though
My e-reader is e-waste.
Edit: it wasn’t by my choice. My kindle just died for no reason.
