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Originally Posted by HenryP
Thanks for posting the message Ea, and thank you, Marc for explaining what I might have explained properly had I not been too hasty.
The registration form on www.takeninbyamerica.com was a late development that I asked the website group to include after I read some MobileRead forum advice provided to a member. It was suggested she capture the email addresses of those who downloaded free ebooks from her site in order to follow up if need be.
I put this to the website folk and they decided to seek info about the locale of those who downloaded. The idea, there, was to get some notion of which part of the world showed the most interest, if any.
They will remove the offending form, pronto.
Thanks again to both of you and I trust the ebook arrived intact with front cover, TOc and workable endnote references.
henry |
I remember that suggestion for capturing email addresses. It's a good rule of thumb that if you want people to come and to stay at your web site, to make the barriers as low as possible. The higher people's incentive to registrate the more you can put to them, like a Internet banking for instance, and vice versa.
That doesn't mean you can't ask people for information or their email address, but I would suggest you make it optional - and make it clear that it is optional. I don't think I would mind giving out a little info about myself, but not everyone would. It's just my email address that I feel I give out enough already, and I'm not alone in that thinking - there exist services like this, to help people deal with the "problem":
mailinator.com. So I commented to give you a heads up that it might be a problem. I don't understand why someone suggested it in the first place (in that other thread). Technically it's a good solution, but we are dealing with people here
