The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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  • Published: 1 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780552167833
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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1 Oct 2014
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17 Oct 2013
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The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.

**Winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award**
'Brad Stone's definitive book on Amazon and Bezos' The Guardian

'A masterclass in deeply researched investigative financial journalism . . . riveting' The Times

The definitive story of the largest and most influential company in the world and the man whose drive and determination changed business forever.

Though Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was never content with being just a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become 'the everything store', offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To achieve that end, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now...

Jeff Bezos stands out for his relentless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way that Henry Ford revolutionised manufacturing.
Amazon placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet. Nothing would ever be the same again.
  • Published: 1 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780552167833
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $22.99
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Brad Stone

Brad Stone is an American journalist and writer. Before writing for Bloomberg Businessweek, he was a technology correspondent for the New York Times. He has also worked at Newsweek. He lives in San Francisco.

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Praise for The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Jeff Bezos is one of the most visionary, focused, and tenacious innovators of our era, and like Steve Jobs he transforms and invents industries. Brad Stone captures his passion and brilliance in this well-reported and compelling narrative.

Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs: the Exclusive Biography

The Everything Store is a revelatory read for everyone - those selling and those sold to - who wants to understand the dynamics of the new digital economy. If you've ever one-clicked a purchase, you must read this book.

Steven Levy, author of Hackers and In the Plex

Stone has done a remarkable job in a way that Bezos would appreciate – by working very hard.

John Gapper, Financial Times

A masterclass in deeply researched investigative financial journalism ... riveting

Tim Waterstone, The Times

The meticulously reported book has plenty of gems for anyone who cares about Amazon, Jeff Bezos, entrepreneurship, leadership just the lunacy it took to build a company in less than two decades that now employs almost 90,000 people and sold $61 billion worth of, well, almost everything last year.

Washington Post

Stone's tale of the birth, near-death, and impressive revival of an iconic American company is well worth your time.

Matthew Yglesias, Slate

Stone's book, at last, gives us a Bezos biography that can fit proudly on a shelf next to the best chronicles of America's other landmark capitalists.

Forbes

Stone's shoe-leather reporting is what makes the book stand out.

GeekWire

A deeply reported and deftly written book.... the definitive account of how a tech icon came to life.

Seattle Times

Illuminating.

Salon

Engrossing... Stone's long tenure covering both Bezos and Amazon... gives his retelling a sureness that keeps the story moving swiftly

New York Times

Scrupulously researched... If only all business books were as readable as this one

Ian King, The Times Books of the Year

The definitive biography of the company that changed the way we shop and read... A masterclass in investigative journalism

Mail on Sunday

I highly recommend this book. Amazon is one of the most important companies in the 21st-century economy, and anyone whose business has been or will be touched by Amazon should be sure to read it.

Tim O'Reilly

Fascinating

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