The Costs of Paper

• A CD-ROM version of documents can be six times more expensive than paper documents because of shiping, producing, and delivery costs.
  
• In 1996, delivering five-thousand 1000-page documents on CD-ROM cost less than half what it would have cost to deliver and produce this many documents using paper.
  
• It can cost $40 000 - $60 000 to store two million paper documents in filing cabinets; this estimation does not take into account the cost of floor space, and this many documents could fit on less than ten CD-ROMS (28)

Harper, Richard H.R, and Abigail J. Sellen. The Myth of the Paperless Office. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.