[Air-l] query for a friend: ebay

Hi All, A friend writes:

I am looking for some internet research advice and thought you might be the man. I'm working on a paper for SCS on "Ebay as Archive" and surprisingly I am finding very little intellectual work on "the world's largest marketplace." I thought that this might be the kind of topic that gets written about in web journals which I know next to nothing about. Any suggestions where I might go looking?

He's in Cinema Studies -- so critical/cultural stuff would be best, but maybe he could make use of social scientific stuff as well. Offlist replies are fine. Best, --J