Print Yellow Pages spam isn’t just an American problem. Here’s a shot from earlier this week in Vancouver where a stack of CanPages books have gone unwanted:

Sadly, Vancouver businesses paid for ads in those books. Ads they expected might be seen by prospective customers. Ads that will never be seen by anyone.
looks like a perfect candidate for a alternative building material. phone book bricks anyone?
Perhaps the way to attack this abomination is convincing the local businesses that advertising with the phonebooks isn’t worth it at all. No revenue, no spam. Also, I have some friends who used to have a couch built out of a stack unwanted books