The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon [Paperback]

An immersive play-by-play of the company's ascent.... It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story. -- Laura Bennett,New Republic

Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.

Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, and his book is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon.The Everything Storeis the book that the business world can't stop talking about, the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.Brad Stone has covered Amazon and technology in Silicon Valley for more than 15 years, for publications such asNewsweekand theNew York Times.He is a senior writer forBloomberg Businessweekand lives in San Francisco.Winner of theFinancial Timesand Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by theWashington Post, Forbes, The New Republic, The Economist, Bloomberg,andGizmodo, and as one of the Top 10 Investigative Journalism Books by Nieman Reports Mr. Stone tells this story with authority and verve, and lots of well-informed reporting.... A dynamic portrait of the driven and demanding Mr. Bezos. -- Michiko Kakutani,New York Times Engrossing.... Stone's long tenure covering both Bezos and Amazon gives his retelling a sureness that keeps the story moving swiftly. --New York Times Book Review Jeff Bezos is one of the most visionary, focused, and tenacious innovators of our era, and llĂ+