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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionseBook editionsPerfect Store: Inside Ebayby Adam Cohen
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:When Pierre Omidyar decided to start an online auction site, his friends told him he was crazy. But within a few years, Omidyar was worth $4 billion and the company he founded, eBay, was the most successful e-commerce site in history. Once a tiny auction site overrun with Beanie Baby listings, today eBay is a commercial powerhouse where millions of users buy and sell everything from antique pickle jars and record albums to Ford trucks and $40,000 computer servers. Now, in The Perfect Store, award-winning journalist Adam Cohen takes us inside eBay for the first time. Cohen was given greater access to eBay than any reporter ever before. He not only spoke to every important player, including CEO Meg Whitman — eBay issued him a company ID and gave him a workspace in its Silicon Valley headquarters.
Besides examining the key strategic moves that led to eBay's success, Cohen brilliantly explores the community of passionate users that has arisen around the site. Among the cast of characters are a woman who has created a thriving business selling bubble wrap, and a part-time game hunter who writes and sells "snipeware," which avid eBay buyers use to place bids in the final seconds of an auction. Cohen has tracked down illustrious members of the early eBay community, such as Pongo, a woman who got amnesia, moved to Alaska, and became a fixture of eBay's early message boards. And he spent time with eBay critics, including one who publishes a near-daily newsletter that attacks eBay as excessively corporate and who helped organize the Million Auction March, to move one million auctions off eBay. The Perfect Store is the perfect book for anyone who wants to get a handle on what works in the Internet economy. And for anyone who wants to explore the life and times of the most vibrant community in cyberspace. Review:"Cohen's quality of writing and research is above average for a high-tech tome. One wonders, however, if his insider access, he claims to be the first journalist to be granted this at eBay, makes him a little too nice to the principals." Publishers Weekly Review:"Cohen has written the definitive history of eBay — a strange and exhilarating tale of [an] Internet idea that really and truly worked." Jeffrey Toobin, ABC News Review:"[T]he only book that will never be sold on eBay. Who?d want to give it up? Bravo, Adam Cohen!" Rosie O Donnell Synopsis:In this brisk, engaging chronicle of one of the most stunning success stories in American business history, Adam Cohen takes us inside eBay the corporation--where all the important players, including eBay's founder Pierre Omidyar and CEO Meg Whitman, demystify their roles and tell the story straight--as well as inside the community of eBay's passionate users, who buy and sell everything from antique pickle jars and record albums to Ford trucks and $40,000 computer servers. His book reveals the many surprising ways in which eBay's "virtual marketplace" has indelibly changed not only the face of American business but the American cultural landscape. - The perfect book for anyone who wants to get a handle on what works in the Internet economy. - eBay is the single most visited commercial site on the Internet, with 1,664,000 visitors daily and 20 million registered users. More than 75,000 Americans make their living by trading on eBay. - Hardcover About the AuthorAdam Cohen is a senior writer for the Nation section of Time, where he covers law and politics. He has also written for Chicago Magazine, Chicago Tribune and The Harvard Law Review. He lives in New York. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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