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Living to tell about wild ride at Amazon.(The Seattle Times)
Byline: Mary Ann Gwinn
By Mary Ann Gwinn
"Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut" by James Marcus; New Press ($24.95)
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In 1998 I first attended Book Expo in Chicago, the yearly convention thrown by and for the publishing industry. Most book people are closet introverts _ not a fashionable bunch. But it was more than passing strange to see that the most coveted convention garb was an ensemble only a geek could love _ tan khakis and a red sports shirt. Those thus clad in the official uniform of Amazon.com had the powerhouses of publishing writhing at their feet.
James Marcus was there. A respected literary critic, from 1998 to 2001 he ran the literature home page for Amazon, the ...
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