Around here and probably where you are also, the Yellow Book is made to look like the Yellow Pages just so people will confuse the two. They even take that further by distributing the Yellow Book awhile before Yellow Pages goes out. That's so that people will think they got an extra book and throw the second one out. Clever how a pissing match works. Thing is advertisers are caught in the middle and feel that they have to have an ad in both books. When the Yellow Pages was the only game in town your advertising dollar went twice as far. Ain't competion great?
On that note, Yellow Pages has been bought out by IDEARC, probably because it has become expensive to publish which makes it expensive to advertise in.
I expect publications like this to go the way of the dinosaur shortly because of the internet. I think people only use the Yellow Pages because its there. With the exception of older people most would probably be just as happy looking on the internet.
-Hal
