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

Marcus, James

ISBN 10: 1565848705 / ISBN 13: 9781565848702

Published by The New Press, 2004

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Synopsis:

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).

About the Author: 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the...
Publisher: The New Press
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good