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JC Penney to stop publishing 'big book' catalogs

J.C. Penney will stop publishing its twice-yearly "big book" catalogs, now that customers increasingly shop online.

Publishers consider dropping old standby: the paper catalog

A publishing institution, faithfully mailed at least twice a year to thousands of stores and libraries for about as long as the industry has existed, may be on its way out: The paper catalog.

ConsumerMan: Stop the catalog madness!

It’s time to put all of last year’s holiday catalogs in the recycle bin. My wife and I got 40 of them, even though we haven’t ordered from a catalog in years. What a waste!

Charitable groups vying for gift dollars

Few people put mosquito tents, cans of worms and three-toed sloths on their holiday wish lists.

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For Colleges, Small Cuts Add Up to Big Savings
Source: The New York Times

College life may look different in the not-so-distant future: Students squinting out dirtier windows, faculty offices with full wastebaskets and no phones, sporting events in which opponents never meet, and paper course catalogs existing only as artifacts of the wasteful old days …

When economic constrains meet Planet Earth: HarperCollins' catalogs are going digital
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One more time savings are meeting the environment: The HarperCollins Fall catalog is going paperless or in other words: no more printing and mailing physical catalogs. From now on, it's all digital.

The Catalog Factor: Why investors should buy newspaper stocks
Source: Harper's Magazine

Noting the imminent death of newspapers is all the rage, fast becoming one of the reigning clichés of the day. I beg to differ, but not for the self-interested reasons one might imagine. To explain, I'd like to tell a story—a newspaper story.

Survey Shows Consumer Opinions on Junk Mail

BOULDER, COLO. – Consumers think they are getting too much junk mail according to StopTheJunkMail.com's 2006 fourth quarter survey.

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