The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Some interesting pieces, but overall, I wouldn't recommend this book.

This was a fascinating read. I’ve put iff reading The Everything Store a few times considering that the story ends in 2013. AWS is only mentioned in brief. And Alexa had yet to arrive on the scene. But then I read that author Brad Stone is working on part two, to be released sometime in the future. Even so, this book is well worth a read today. Well written and meticulously researched, Stone paints a compelling but, I think, honest picture of Bezos and Amazon.

This book drips corporate blood. Amazon does not play nice and it makes me wonder if we, as customers, are trading low prices and great customer service now for a very bleak future later.

Jeff's Reading List The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989). J Sam Walton: Made in America, by Sam Walton with John Huey (1992). Memos from the Chairman, by Alan Greenberg (1996). The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. (1975). Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras (1994). Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, by Jim Collins (2001). Creation: Life and How to Make It, by Steve Grand (2001). The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business, by Clayton M. Christensen (1997). The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox (1984). Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones (1996). Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone in Marketing Should Know, by Mark Jeffery (2010). The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007). https://viewpre.com/review/1000085

I have got to seriously reconsider ever shopping at Amazon again. :( And, yes, I KNOW goodreads is an Amazon property.