New website offers Americans the chance to opt-out of phone books. Feb. 1, 2011— -- A new website is giving Americans a way to say "no thanks" to deliveries of Yellow Pages phone books. Starting ...

Before the Internet, if a person needed to obtain a phone number or address for a person or business, he grabbed the phone book and searched for the information. Back then, "Googling" consisted of ...

If you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us, it may have been a pleasant (or unwanted) surprise and a nostalgic reminder of those pre-digital ...

SEATTLE The City of Seattle rolled out a new online registry Thursday that allows residents and businesses to choose whether they will receive yellow pages phone books. But an industry group calls it ...

Way, way back in the olden days, people wrote on typewriters, watched just five TV channels, and put sugar in their coffee. There was no such thing as gluten-free, eco-friendly, satellite radio, or ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2006--The User-Friendly Phone Book (UFPB), a leading independent yellow page directory publisher, is distributing its first Akron-Medina, Ohio ...

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 the ...

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-out ...

San Francisco's pioneering legislation to launch a pilot program banning the unwanted distribution of phone books appears headed back to the drawing board after a federal court struck down a similar ...

AT&T is dialing back distribution of its white pages in Florida - way back. The annual Yellow Pages is still showing up on doorsteps this summer like it always has, but the the white pages phone book ...

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. Further, ...