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- catalog abstract ""James Marcus was hired as a senior editor at Amazon.com in 1996, giving him a ringside seat for the company's explosive rise and dismal wallet-busting swoon. Now - as the e-commerce giant makes an astonishing comeback - he tells all. Unlike the recent crop of dot.com memoirs, this is no tale of a bankrupt and brokenhearted entrepreneur. Marcus came aboard as a self-described "token humanist," and his take on the new economy juggernaut is predominantly a cultural one. How did the company change as it morphed from a miniscule start-up to a global, multibillion-dollar leviathan? Was the Web breaking more promises than it kept? And finally: What could an editor do to resist being transformed into a hyperventilating shill?" "In answering these questions, Marcus takes us to meetings, job interviews, trade shows, and corporate retreats. We spend a freezing holiday season at the warehouse, and a considerably warmer afternoon at the company's summer picnic - where Bezos himself mans the dunk tank. Amazonia is a guide to America's lost world of the nineties."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13256746.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""James Marcus was hired as a senior editor at Amazon.com in 1996, giving him a ringside seat for the company's explosive rise and dismal wallet-busting swoon. Now - as the e-commerce giant makes an astonishing comeback - he tells all. Unlike the recent crop of dot.com memoirs, this is no tale of a bankrupt and brokenhearted entrepreneur. Marcus came aboard as a self-described "token humanist," and his take on the new economy juggernaut is predominantly a cultural one. How did the company change as it morphed from a miniscule start-up to a global, multibillion-dollar leviathan? Was the Web breaking more promises than it kept? And finally: What could an editor do to resist being transformed into a hyperventilating shill?" "In answering these questions, Marcus takes us to meetings, job interviews, trade shows, and corporate retreats. We spend a freezing holiday season at the warehouse, and a considerably warmer afternoon at the company's summer picnic - where Bezos himself mans the dunk tank. Amazonia is a guide to America's lost world of the nineties."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "261 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1565848705".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New Press ; New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "381/.45002/02854678 22".
- catalog subject "Amazon.com (Firm) History.".
- catalog subject "Electronic commerce United States History.".
- catalog subject "Internet bookstores United States History.".
- catalog subject "Marcus, James.".
- catalog subject "Z473.A485 M37 2004".
- catalog title "Amazonia / James Marcus.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".