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Chaos · 06-01-2005, 02:30 AM

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q...lmie,+WA+98065

Anyone happen to live in the area? That's the address they provide on their "Contact" page, claiming to have some form of real location... Although the contact phone number does have the correct area code for that general area. Anyone feel like trying the number to see if it's a real number?

And, continuing with hacker's line of thought on the "FAQ" page, their grammar is awful. I don't know about anyone else, but if I was running a webstore I wouldn't use phrases like "nearest future", or bad punctuation/capitalization like "Yes. of course."

http://www.bookaza.com/legal.html

Read the "Copyright notice" section of that, and compare with http://usa1.ebooks.com/information/authors.asp section called "What rights does eBooks.com wish to obtain?"

Also, compare the "What we promise to do" section on "Bookaza" to a section of the same name here: http://www.gdigest.com/en/agbs.php

Looks like they take little bits of copyright/etc. notices from other websites... While not incriminating, it's not exactly comforting.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...bookaza.com%2F

Having that many errors is not comforting either... The closest to a real version of HTML it is is HTML 3.2...

I mean, again, not incriminating, but behind that "professional looking" exterior is a bad interior... Ok, so some legit websites suck more (Amazon - it was amusing to try validating it as XHTML 1.1... Over 2800 errors. Almost 1000 as plain HTML 4.01 Trans.)...

I think I'm getting off topic a fair bit. Maybe it's time for me to sleep a bit.

But yes, I agree with hacker - it seems creepy.

06-01-2005, 02:30 AM	#2
Chaos Evangelist Posts: 418 Karma: 281 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Device: Assorted older devices	http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q...lmie,+WA+98065 Anyone happen to live in the area? That's the address they provide on their "Contact" page, claiming to have some form of real location... Although the contact phone number does have the correct area code for that general area. Anyone feel like trying the number to see if it's a real number? And, continuing with hacker's line of thought on the "FAQ" page, their grammar is awful. I don't know about anyone else, but if I was running a webstore I wouldn't use phrases like "nearest future", or bad punctuation/capitalization like "Yes. of course." http://www.bookaza.com/legal.html Read the "Copyright notice" section of that, and compare with http://usa1.ebooks.com/information/authors.asp section called "What rights does eBooks.com wish to obtain?" Also, compare the "What we promise to do" section on "Bookaza" to a section of the same name here: http://www.gdigest.com/en/agbs.php Looks like they take little bits of copyright/etc. notices from other websites... While not incriminating, it's not exactly comforting. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...bookaza.com%2F Having that many errors is not comforting either... The closest to a real version of HTML it is is HTML 3.2... I mean, again, not incriminating, but behind that "professional looking" exterior is a bad interior... Ok, so some legit websites suck more (Amazon - it was amusing to try validating it as XHTML 1.1... Over 2800 errors. Almost 1000 as plain HTML 4.01 Trans.)... I think I'm getting off topic a fair bit. Maybe it's time for me to sleep a bit. But yes, I agree with hacker - it seems creepy.