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De Machine: now available in English
De Machine, the award-winning Dutch book about the 25-year history of Dutch-American hotelwebsite Booking.com, has been translated to English.

De Machine: now available in English

Gepubliceerd op 30 augustus, 2022 om 09:38, aangepast op 30 augustus, 2022 om 10:06

De Machine, the award-winning Dutch book about the 25-year history of Dutch-American hotelwebsite Booking.com, has been translated to English. The English-language edition is published under the title "The Machine - Under the Spell of Booking.com" and available for purchase in Europe as an ebook from retailers like Amazon, Kobo, iBooks and Google Books

Booking.com, one of the richest and most successful internet companies in Europe, has been a mystery for 25 years. Everyone is familiar with the website, but no one knows the people and the stories behind this deeply Dutch company that now rests in U.S. hands. Until now. Three journalists from the major Dutch NRC daily newspaper present a detailed reconstruction of the dark internet fairy tale of Booking.com, from an idea built by a group of engineering students in Twente in the late 1990s to its development into the largest and most powerful hotel booking platform in the world.
 
This is the never-before told story of Booking's rise, zenith and moral decay; of extravagant parties, runaway internet experiments, duped shareholders, manhandling managers and boardroom squabbles. Above all, it is the story of a company that built the supreme online money-making machine, but in the eternal quest for more, forgot the human beings behind it. De Machine won the acclaimed 2022 "De Loep" prize, a Dutch-Belgian award for best investigative journalism work and was shortlisted for the distinguished Brusseprize as well.

Auteurs
Auteur: Stijn Bronzwaer

Stijn Bronzwaer (1981) schrijft over technologie en werkt sinds 2007 voor NRC. Eerder was hij onder meer adjunct-hoofdredacteur en chef van de mediaredactie.

Auteur: Merijn Rengers

Merijn Rengers (1973) is onderzoeksjournalist en werkt sinds 2015 voor NRC. Eerder werkte hij twaalf jaar voor de Volkskrant. Hij won diverse journalistieke prijzen, waaronder twee keer de Tegel (voor verhalen over groene subsidies en diplomafraude).

Auteur: Joris Kooiman

Joris Kooiman is financieel journalist. Hij begon in 2011 bij Het Financieele Dagblad en stapte in 2017 over naar NRC. Voor het FD was hij onder meer correspondent in Berlijn.

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Stijn Bronzwaer, Merijn Rengers en Joris Kooiman - The Machine
Stijn Bronzwaer, Merijn Rengers en Joris Kooiman

This is the never-before told story of Booking's rise, zenith and moral decay

Stijn Bronzwaer, Merijn Rengers en Joris Kooiman - De Machine
Stijn Bronzwaer, Merijn Rengers en Joris Kooiman

Drie NRC -journalisten doorgronden Booking.com

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