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Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut Paperback - 2005

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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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

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  • Title Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut
  • Author James Marcus
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 278
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press
  • Publication date November 1, 2005
  • ISBN 9781595580245 / 1595580247
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.85 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.16 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Amazon.com (Firm) - History, Internet bookstores - United States - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 381.450

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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