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Phone books are like paper spam -- such a waste! Really makes me wonder what exactly goes into their cost:benefit calculation.
by shawnee_ 16y ago
Phone books are like paper spam -- such a waste! Really makes me wonder what exactly goes into their cost:benefit calculation.
- adolph 16y agoAbout $15.3 billion in revenue. [1] I'm not a fan of organized littering and haven't used the yellow pages in years. I can see how it makes sense for all the vendors of a particular service cluster together, in the Steven Johnson _Emergence_ sense [2]. 1. http://www.simbainformation.com/pub/2523077.html http://www.simbainformation.com/pub/2523077.html 2. http://books.google.com/books?id=qAtgKyaLH4MC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=steven+johnson+clusters+city&source=bl&ots=-UaAhXsU-H&sig=boqVoWQF2tw4yRoanbZd1VhW2j4&hl=en&ei=tIRITffSKMHGgAfroM2qBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=qAtgKyaLH4MC&pg=PA107&#...
- Joakal 16y agoThe customers for yellowpages are advertisers. The people getting yellowpages are the product.