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

by James Marcus

Book Overview

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)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565848705
• ISBN13: 9781565848702
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"