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Inside eBay
Guests:

Adam Cohen
* Author, The Perfect Store: Inside eBay (Little Brown & Co., 2002)

Karen Young
*Owner, Shippingsupply.com (also known as the "Bubble Wrap Woman")

David Lucking-Reiley
*Associate Professor of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (specializes in online auctions)

Erin Mckean
*Senior Editor of U.S. Dictionaries for Oxford University Press *Editor, Verbatim (the language quarterly)

eBay is one of the few Web sites that actually makes money ... a lot of it. But it's more than that. It's also a form of entertainment, a place to make a living and for some, an addiction. eBay, what's the story behind its success? Join Neal Conan in this hour's Talk of the Nation for NPR News.

Inside eBay

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Inside eBay

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Guests:

Adam Cohen
* Author, The Perfect Store: Inside eBay (Little Brown & Co., 2002)

Karen Young
*Owner, Shippingsupply.com (also known as the "Bubble Wrap Woman")

David Lucking-Reiley
*Associate Professor of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (specializes in online auctions)

Erin Mckean
*Senior Editor of U.S. Dictionaries for Oxford University Press *Editor, Verbatim (the language quarterly)

eBay is one of the few Web sites that actually makes money ... a lot of it. But it's more than that. It's also a form of entertainment, a place to make a living and for some, an addiction. eBay, what's the story behind its success? Join Neal Conan in this hour's Talk of the Nation for NPR News.

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