James Marcus book reading for 'Amazonia' June 28, 2004

New York journalist James Marcus pays a visit back to the city he called home over a five-year period. He was one among a few highly regarded New York book and journalism people who made the leap west to work as editors at amazon.com - back in the day when it was known solely as an online book entity - albeit one with extraordinary content (i.e., like reading a fine literary magazine). He shares his perspective - senior editor at Amazon -- on those heady early days of the company as an Internet bookseller, and its gradual development into a one-stop source not only for books, but also for kitchen implements, cameras, watches, gourmet food, electronics and much more in Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut (The New Press). "Has the shapeliness and intensity of a novel.... An utterly beguiling book." - Jonathan Raban.

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