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Article: E-biz cliffhanger.(Amazon.com's revenue)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 10, 2000
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At Amazon.com, the No. 1 business bestseller is a 94-page book, Who Moved My Cheese? But nipping at its heels, sort of, at No. 20,566, is an 800-page tour de force that I hope readers will rediscover, Anthony Trollope's 1875 classic The Way We Live Now. I'm rooting for the underdog. Go, Trollope!
The lazy scions of British old money, the socially maladroit vulgarians of new money--Trollope's biting satire enumerates the foibles of one and all. The backdrop constitutes a character in itself: the giddy London stock market whose levitation obeys no known law of gravity. In the novel, the way new shares of phantom companies are purchased by naive investors bears ...