And let the buyer opt out if they want to, by clicking a box on the web site.

As good as websites are, they are not as portable as a paper catalog, they require power, and sometimes in spite of the best efforts, stuff can be hard to find as the searcher doesn't quite understand the category of what they are looking for, or the item is classified a different way. It is hard to "browse" website the way you can with a catalog.

Not to mention the ability to turn back a page corner when one happens to be sitting on "the throne."

I work in high tech all day... I carry a smart phone, I have multiple computers in my house, including an ipad, and frankly, I still prefer a printed page.