The Perfect Store

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Chapter 1: Inside eBay
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 as well as into the community of eBay's passionate users.

Chapter 1: Inside eBay, Part 2
By the mid-1990s, however, a new Internet was emerging. Lowkey newsgroups were being pushed aside by something far glitzier- the World Wide Web, which suddenly gave anyone with a PC and a modem the power to call up documents stored on computers anywhere

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 as well as into the community of eBay's passionate users. 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 cultural landscape of the twenty-first century.

Adam 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..

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