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.

[Jonathan H Harwell]

As a librarian who deals with stacks of these rolling in each day (most of them arriving in multiple copies), I heartily applaud this effort. Some libraries have notified all the publishers that they no longer want to receive any paper catalogs. I'd love to do the same!