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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In 2007, I took some heat for pointing out that Google Trends showed declining searches for “yellow pages” while theorizing that this indicated reducing consumer interest in print and online YP sites.

line or display ads in the Yellow Pages section of your local phone book(s) Don’t think twice about this: You need to be in the Yellow Pagesjust to let people know you’re a legitimate business and to ...