[free-sklyarov] Dangers of eTextbooks

[Christopher R. Maden]

At 14:48 7-08-2001, Jon O . wrote:
>#whois openebook.org
>
>Whois Server Version 1.3
>Registrant:
>MICROSOFT (OPENEBOOK3-DOM)
>    One Microsoft Way
>    REDMOND, WA 98052
>    US
>
>    Domain Name: OPENEBOOK.ORG
>
>    Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
>       Conboy, Garth  (GC5065)  gc at SOFTBOOKPRESS.COM
>       SoftBook Press, Inc.
>       7745 Herschel Ave.
>       La Jolla , CA 92037
>       619-551-4949 (FAX) 619-454-8502
>
>    Record last updated on 07-Feb-2001.
>    Record expires on 05-Oct-2002.
>    Record created on 05-Oct-1998.
>    Database last updated on 7-Aug-2001 07:49:00 EDT.
>
>    Domain servers in listed order:
>
>    TROLL.SOFTBOOKPRESS.COM      208.211.82.2
>    AUTH50.NS.UU.NET             198.6.1.161
>
>Troll is right:
>SOFTBOOKPRESS.COM owned by MS?

Whu?  No - MS is the registrant, and Garth is the admin contact, just as it 
says, no more.

The Open eBook Forum is an industry consortium, of which both Microsoft and 
Softbook are members (along with Random House, Gemstar, Simon & Schuster, 
and a bunch of others).

-crism, Open eBook Publication Structures Working Group member
-- 
Christopher R. Maden, XML Consultant
DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training
<URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ >
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