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Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Find out how Amazon became the world's largest online retailer. Discover how the company started by developing a unique way to sell books and grew into a giant of the e-commerce industry in a short span of time." --
5) Amazonia
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In Amazon.com Jeff Bezos built something the world had never seen. He created the most recognized brand name on the Internet, became for a time one of the richest men in the world, and was crowned "the king of cyber-commerce." Yet for all the media exposure, the inside story of Amazon.com has never really been told. In this revealing, unauthorized account, Robert Spector, journalist and best-selling author, gives us this up-to-date, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"An insightful look at how Amazon really works and how its founder and CEO makes it happen. Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: Buy now with one click. Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique combination of character traits and business strategy...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Examine Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's ascent to power and the global impact of the empire he built. The film also investigates the darker side of the company's rapid growth, and the challenge of trying to rein in the power of the richest man in the world." --
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books undoubtedly have entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and scholarly materials, Striphas tells a story of modern publishing that proves, even in a rapidly digitizing world, books are anything but dead."-inside jacket.
