If the yellow pages industry didn’t already have enough on their plate because of diminished usage and advertisers abandoning ship. Now that Seattle has passed legislation that impacts directory publishers, San Francisco has followed in suite, but with mush worse implications to the publishers.
The first shot in the war against unwanted phone books was fired in Seattle. The city council passed a law in November that forced phone-book publishers like Dex One to apply for a permit and pay 14 cents per copy in order dump yellow pages on people’s doorsteps.
Now, after court battles have been fought and won by the city of Seattle, San Francisco has decided that this brand of resident empowerment is right up its alley. So it’s replicating the law–but with more teeth.
As Good Cities reports, the city’s board of supervisors (there is no city council in San Francisco) preliminarily passed an ordinance that severely cracks down on phone-book deliveries.