Newspaper classified ad expenditures tumbled nearly 17 percent in 2007, according to the Newspaper Association of America.
Some of the monopolies are natural: Craigslist won due to the fragmentation of the traditional classified ad market.
Businesses that once generated profit and jobs--heavy manufacturers, hub-and-spoke airlines, travel agencies, newspapers dependent on classified ad sales--can suddenly tumble.
Already software writers feel salary pressure from India, cartoon animators from China, classified ad salesmen from Ebay and so on.
At the same time, he also started a service to answer classified ad inquiries for car sellers and arrange the showings.
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Much of the money to bankroll her art empire comes from the classified ad publishing company she cofounded in 1987 with John MacBain, her former husband.
Another thing to consider is that the salesman at the car dealership is no less a stranger to you than the person from the classified ad.
The man who hired Barger, Chris Shaw, first tried a newspaper classified ad to spread news of the opening at his Freedom Graphics printing company in Shepherdsville.
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Some of the biggest threats to newspaper profits have come from Web sites like Craigslist and Monster.com, online advertising venues that are chipping away at newspapers' classified ad sections.
As the wire service notes, the two companies have been feuding over allegations that eBay used its Craigslist board seat to collect confidential information as eBay was building a rival classified ad site.
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They assumed they had a lock on local advertising to individuals with their papers' classified ad departments, and on major advertisers like auto manufacturers, auto dealers and movie distributors and theaters with their display ads.
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Then the classified ad buyers disappeared.
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Axel Springer, publisher of Bild, is reinvesting German newspaper profits in online classified-ad services.
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But, clearly, Ebay has mixed feelings about transforming itself from a classified-ad host into a multimedia brand.
Consider what Google and Craigslist have done to strip newspapers like the L.A. Times of their readers and classified-ad revenue base.
EBay launched its own classified-ad service, Kijiji, in the U.S. in 2007.
The bills "supposedly address real needs, but in practice are means by which bad actors (with lots of money and lawyers) can take sites down, " Craig Newmark, founder of the online classified-ad site Craigslist, wrote in a blog post Monday.
Dislodging Craigslist from its place atop the ad market would be hard even without litigation because classified advertising is a classic example of network effects: Craigslist gets so many listings because people know it is the leading site, so their ad will be widely seen.
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