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 ...

The YPA is calling the site the National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site, because it allows you to opt out of all books or choose to receive selected books. I clicked through through the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Rejoice, households in Esperance: you no longer have to take delivery of six Yellow Pages telephone books. In Guilderland, Amsterdam and Delanson, where five directories are the norm, you, too, can ...

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 ...

For a small-business owner, the sheer number of places to list a business and attempt to reach potential buyers can be overwhelming. Listing your business in a database like Yellow Pages, Yelp or ...

I was reviewing print yellow pages book usage statistics this week, in preparation for the SMX Local & Mobile conference, and I was struck once again by the large numbers that the Yellow Pages ...

This is probably going to be the shortest post I've ever done, but I'm doing it for effect. The right people reading this will have a lot to reflect on despite my brevity. Basically, I want to take a ...

The advertising downturn has added another casualty. New York City-based Yellow Pages publisher Ambassador Media Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The petition was filed Friday in ...

There was a time when the Yellow Pages phone book was Australia's go-to place to find businesses, addresses and phone numbers. That time is not 2017. Yet already this year hundreds of thousands of ...