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

by James Marcus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595580247
• ISBN13: 9781595580245
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"