[OSM-talk] Business listings
Phil Endecott
spam_from_osm_talk at chezphil.org
Mon Jul 27 17:39:23 BST 2009
Lars Aronsson wrote:
> I doubt that any "yellow pages" catalog covers a critical mass of
> all business any longer. We're back to the 19th century, when,
> before telephones, various private publishers printed "address
> calendars".
Just jumping in with a random factoid here. I read a piece in the
finance section of a newspaper today about Yell. It was saying that
they are seen as somewhat "recession proof", i.e. they are affected
less than average during a downturn, because, quote: "when things get
bad, cancelling the advert in the Yellow Pages is almost the last thing
that any business does".
I'm not sure how far you can extrapolate from that, but I think it's
still fair to say that Yellow Pages covers most businesses. Certainly
the copies that arrive on my doorstep each year (and go straight into
the recycling bin) are not getting any thinner.
Phil.
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