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Old 12-10-2021, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by BEETHOVENMIKEY View Post
We agree.
These books are a waist of our amenity fees.
Ninety-five percent
of the residents either go online to find people or business or go by word of mouth.
Granted, probably 50% of the production cost is covered by the advertising, but we're paying for the rest.
Do you have any evidence that amenity fees are used to pay for the phone books? I would suspect that the phone book is a profitable endeavor, financed totally by advertisers. Otherwise, why would another company, Data Publishing, also provide a free phone book to Village residents?