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Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut Hardback - 2004

by James Marcus

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The entertaining story of the first five years of Amazon.com is recounted by employee number 55. "The most impressive aspect . . . is Marcus's sculpting of self into an everyman caught between two magnets--culture and commerce."--David Shields ("Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity") 224 pp.

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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 a decade later 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, creating what Jonathan Raban calls "an utterly beguiling book." For this edition, Marcus has added a new afterword with further reflections on his Amazon experience.

In the tradition of the most noteworthy and entertaining memoirs of recent years, Marcus offers us a modern-day fable, "a clear-eyed, first-person account, rife with digressions on the larger cultural meaning throughout" (Henry Alford, Newsday).

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  • Title Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut
  • Author James Marcus
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 261
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York
  • Publication date June 2004
  • ISBN 9781565848702 / 1565848705
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 1.02 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 2.59 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003066505
  • Dewey Decimal Code 381.450

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James Marcus was employed as Senior Editor at Amazon from 1996 to 2001. The executive editor of Harper's and 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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