> Skip to content
[]
  • Published: 31 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448106776
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

Boo Hoo

A Dot.Com Story from Concept to Catastrophe




Related TitlesVenus in Copper, ('91) 0091748186The Iron Hand of Mars, ('92) 0091753333/099200910Poseidon's Gold, ('93) 0712658319/ 099831902Last Act in Palmyra, ('94) 0712659366/ 0099831805 Time to Depart, ('95) 0712659315/ 0099338815 A Dying Light in Corduba, ('96) 0712659412/0099338912Three Hands in the Fountain ('97) 0712677917/0099799510 A Course of Honour ('97) 0712677240/ 0099227428 Two for the Lions ('98) 0712677968/ 0099799715One Virgin Too Many ('99) 071267702X/0099799715Ode To A Banker ('00) 0712680349/0099298201

boo hoo is a gripping, insider's account of the rise and fall of this most controversial of internet startups - a global, online retailer of sports and designer clothes.

  • Published: 31 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448106776
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

About the authors

Charles Drazin

Charles Drazin was born in Hampshire in 1960. He grew up in North London and was educated at Highgate School and Oxford University, where he read Classics. He has worked for many years as a writer and editor, and also teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. His other books include In Search of the Third Man (1999), Korda: Britain’s Only Movie Mogul (2002), The Man Who Outshone the Sun King (2008) and The Faber Book of French Cinema (2011).

Ernst Malmsten

Ernst Malmsten was born in Sweden and knew Kajsa in kindergarten. He met her again outside a Paris nightclub in 1992. The two of them made millions by selling their first internet venture, bokus.com, to Bertelsmann (bol.com).

Erik Portanger

Erik Portanger has been staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal for 18 months and has been a journalist for over 10 years. Before working for the WSJ, he was a senior correspondent for the AP Dow Jones News Service for 5 years.