[SampleMan]

Yellowpages could save a LOT of money (and trees) if they stopped printing those monstrous sized phone books. Everybody uses their cell phones or computers to look up phone numbers and addresses now. I guess maybe its about the ad revenue that keeps them going...

The Yellow Pages had an extortion racket before computers were ubiquitous. The phone company had a monopoly and weilded it to extort unconscionable rates on businesses, where exclusion for many businesses meant failure. A small tile company might have to pay out $6000 for a small one liner printed on newspaper stock. The end of the Yellow Pages ability to extort such payments is a Godsend to businesses, especially small businesses.

[Mr. Lucky]

Exactly.

[Almondjoy]

You must not be a supply and demand kind of person are you?

Do you say the same thing about top heart surgeon’s making a bazillion dollars? I mean they have the skills to save a life, they should do it for whatever their patient can afford right?