Comments on: 5 Reasons Why You Don’t Need Phone Books

By: Paul Ruiz

Paul Ruiz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:55:56 +0000

So many trees to make so many doorstops

By: BtB

BtB — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:35:39 +0000

By: Blue

Blue — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:47:33 +0000

This is a great simple act to start in helping to Save Mother Earth! Plant a tree or save tons of them. Let us help eliminate wastes and do something for the unstopping global warming. In whatever way, let’s continue working to save our nature for our own benefit esp for our children’s children in the future. And we thank this kind of awareness to remind us of our environmental responsibility. Kudos!

By: R Mitchell

R Mitchell — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:10:08 +0000

DO NOT BAN THE PHONE BOOK! It took me 7 min to get thru the online BS of loggin in just to get a neighbors number and my mom 30 secs to open the book and find it. RIDUNKULOUS!

By: John Lusk

John Lusk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:47:54 +0000

Thanks for your support Marianne. Just seems like common sense to do what we can to reduce the printing and distribution of the white pages phone book. Check out http://www.banthephonebook.org when you get a chance!

John

By: Marianne

Marianne — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:01:56 +0000

I don’t want them. They are too heavy , they are in the way, and I surely do want to do my part to save trees, water and cut down on taxes being wasted. GET RID OF THE PHONE BOOKS

By: John Lusk

John Lusk — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:40:40 +0000

Hi Laura,

Good question. We’re not advocating that the phone books go away, we’re just promoting that there’s a better way to curb waste. One solution is to make phone books ‘opt-in’. If a customer wants a phonebook, then they can request one.

From an innovation perspective, WhitePages is committed to making sure that people and business information are always accessible, anytime and anywhere. In addittion to our website, http://www.whitepages.com, we’re introducing a number of different products that run on mobile phones.

But I agree with you, if your computer is down, you need to have another way to get a phone number.

Thanks for the comment.

John

By: John Lusk

John Lusk — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:37:09 +0000

Eric,

Thanks for the links. I know that AT&T is starting to get on board with the opt-out movement. We really do need to do better when it comes to phone books. WhitePages is actually contemplating getting a bit more involved in this effort. I’ll certainly reach out to you if that comes to fruition.

Thanks again.

John

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:00:18 +0000

How is someone meant to ring my computer business that is only advertised online when their computer is broken. Print Yellow Pages is 50-75% of the source of our customers

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:40:45 +0000

Kudos for bringing awareness to this John!

Dex and YellowBook also offer forms on their websites where you can opt out of their books. Here are the links:

Dex: http://selectyourdex.dexknows.com/SelectYourDex/searchByZipCodeAction.do

YellowBook: http://corporate.yellowbook.com/contact-us/print-directory-inquiries/?searchSiteUrl=%2fdefault.aspx