A new web site is giving Americans a way to say "no thanks" to the deliveries of yellow pages phone books. Starting today, the Yellow Pages Association has set up a one-stop shop, ww ...

Phone books are usually divided into at least two sections. The white pages were residential listings, the yellow pages were for businesses, broken into categories and listed by alphabetical order.

The white pages of the phone book are the residential listings. People who have opted to be listed in the phone book are included in the white pages in alphabetical order.

But the publishers of "The Real Yellow Pages" believe the value of their phone books remains strong. The new directory — touting itself as "The Original Search Engine“ — is published by ...

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged that many view hefty phone books as historical relics in the age of Internet search engines, but said the Yellow Pages ...

Seattle's city council today approved one of the toughest laws restricting unwanted yellow pages phone book deliveries in the country. The new ordinance, approved in an 8-1 vote, creates an opt ...

Seattle unveiled its new yellow pages opt-out registry Thursday, months after it became the first city in the country to require phone book companies to honor requests of people who no longer want ...

Conversely, usage of yellow pages books in many small towns continues to be healthy. The books there contain fewer overall competitors, there are fewer competing phone books published, and ad ...

I have a set of very fat Yellow Pages phone books on the shelf above my desk. They have a thick layer of dust on them, since I have no reason to use them (and, I guess, I’m a less than ...

Local marketing industry savants have long been predicting the demise of print Yellow Pages books, going the way of the buggy whip due to overwhelming competition from Internet alternatives ...

David Chiu, president of the city's Board of Supervisors, said the ban was needed because the unsolicited books degraded the environment and blighted neighborhoods. The Local Search Association, a ...