Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut by Marcus, James

Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut

A "funny, contemplative" memoir of working at Amazon in the early years, when it was a struggling...
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Author: James Marcus
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Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut by Marcus, James

Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut

$36.13

Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut

$36.13
Author: James Marcus
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A "funny, contemplative" memoir of working at Amazon in the early years, when it was a struggling online bookstore (San Francisco Chronicle).

In a book that Ian Frazier has called "a fascinating and sometimes hair-raising morality tale from deep inside the Internet boom," James Marcus, hired by Amazon.com in 1996--when the company was so small his e-mail address could be james@amazon.com--looks back at the ecstatic rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable comeback of the consummate symbol of late 1990s America.

Observing "how it was to be in the right place (Seattle) at the right time (the '90s)" (Chicago Reader), Marcus offers a ringside seat on everything from his first interview with Jeff Bezos to the company's bizarre Nordic-style retreats, in "a clear-eyed, first-person account, rife with digressions on the larger cultural meaning throughout" (Henry Alford, Newsday).

"Marcus tells his story with wit and candor." --Booklist, starred review

Author: James Marcus
Publisher: New Press
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.54w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9781595580245

About the Author
James Marcus was employed as Senior Editor at Amazon.com from 1996 to 2001. An award-winning translator, he has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the Village Voice, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the New York Review of Books, Lingua Franca, and many other publications. He lives in New York City.


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