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 ...

San Francisco would become the first city in the nation to ban the unsolicited distribution of the Yellow Pages under legislation to be formally introduced today by Board of Supervisors President ...

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 ...

San Francisco could come closer to winning an environmental victory while also fighting neighborhood blight and helping the economy. Legislation slated for a vote today at the Board of Supervisors ...

Two publishers of Yellow Pages phone books and an industry association sued Seattle in federal court Monday, seeking to overturn an ordinance that would let residents decide if they want to receive ...

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 ...

The Emerald City is trying to get the yellow out. The City Council on Monday passed an ordinance allowing people to place themselves on a list to stop receiving yellow pages phone books, similar to ...

SPRINGFIELD – From now on, fingers looking for home phone numbers are going to do their walking on a computer keyboard. Verizon is no longer including residential white-pages listings with most phone ...

Alas, the poor phone book. Once, it was the cornerstone of American connection, an indispensable resource people relied on to find pizza shops, plumbers, and the number of the cute girl in math class.

. The change, which takes effect Jan. 1, will save about 2,200 tons of low-grade paper, spokesman Lee Gierczynski said. Verizon had distributed about 12 million books in the state each year. The ...

Phone books may seem like things of the past for anyone who has a smartphone. After all, just about any number is obtainable via online resources. With that said, there are still personal phone ...