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** Likewise in his book "Down and Out in Paris and London", Orwell worked as a dishwasher at the "Hôtel X." This was the Hôtel de Crillon.
* Several in [[Sarah Dessen]]'s novels, including Ume.com (Facebook) and Gas/Gro (7/11 or QT). The Facebook imitator even has a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of Mark Zuckerberg (i.e. a nerdy guy who started the site in college).
* ''Don't Get Taken Every Time: The Ultimate Guide to Buying Or Leasing a Car'' by Remar Sutton, a book warning consumers of various common, questionable high-pressure auto dealership sales tactics, uses the fictional dealership chain "America's Family Friend" as the example villain of the story. The CYA disclaimer: "America's Family Friend Inc., and other fictional businesses and Web sites in the narrative sections of this book are all registered on the Web to the author."
* ''[[Animorphs]]'' both averts and invokes this trope. Jake having a Sega game console is mentioned,(though it's just a 'console' in the re-release to help with relevance issues) but there's the fictional internet provider Web Access America, which seems to allude to either America Online,Microsoft, or both.
* [[The Berenstain Bears]] does this with names like E-Bear (for Ebay) and Pawbook (for Facebook).
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