"A look at the origins, leaders, growth, and products of Amazon.com, the electronic commerce company that was founded in 1994 and today is the largest online retailer in the United States"--Provided by Publisher.
A career biography of Jeff Bezos, founder of the Internet bookstore Amazon.com, discussing the phenomenal growth of the company since its inception and its expansion to include other products, and looking at the influence of Amazon on the way the world conducts business.
The author shares the story of his experiences as senior vice president of communications for Value America, an Internet retailing service that was powered by a steady influx of investor money, but which never seemed to work and ended up crashing hard when Wall Street began to demand results.
business, crime, and privacy in the age of ubiquitous computing
Hunter, Richard
2002
Explores the realities and implications of a world in which anyone can find information on a person's health, life, business, and family through computer technology.
Provides an overview of the Internet, explores the workings of a dotcom business--how it is funded, its staff, and what makes it different from other businesses, and profiles related jobs.
Mike Daisey chronicles the years he spent working for Amazon.com, offering a humorous account of how the company was run, who some of his more entertaining co-workers were, and why the company has become so successful when other dot-coms are dying off.
