Comments on: Visible shrinkage http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7507 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan B http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7507/comment-page-1#comment-15293 Dan B Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:43:39 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7507#comment-15293 As long as companies keep buying ad space in those phone books, the publishers will keep printing them. As long as companies keep buying ad space in those phone books, the publishers will keep printing them.

]]> By: Flack http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7507/comment-page-1#comment-15258 Flack Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:31:39 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7507#comment-15258 I asked ten people in my office if they would pay $1 for a phone book and all ten of them said no. Ours goes straight from the front porch to the recycle bin every year -- and for some reason, we get two or three of them within the span of a couple of weeks. Surely the demographic of people who can read, own telephones and don't own computers must be shrinking to the point that printing physical copies of the yellow book no longer make sense, right? I asked ten people in my office if they would pay $1 for a phone book and all ten of them said no. Ours goes straight from the front porch to the recycle bin every year — and for some reason, we get two or three of them within the span of a couple of weeks.

Surely the demographic of people who can read, own telephones and don’t own computers must be shrinking to the point that printing physical copies of the yellow book no longer make sense, right?

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