The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (52 page)
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Authors: Brad Stone
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Bryant Urstadt, “What Amazon Fears Most: Diapers,”
Bloomberg Businessweek,
October 7, 2010.
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Nick Saint, “Amazon Nukes Diapers.com in Price War—May Force Diapers’ Founders to Sell Out,”
Business Insider,
November 5, 2010.
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Amazon, “Amazon Marketplace Sellers Enjoy High-Growth Holiday Season,” press release, January 2, 2013.
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Roy Blount Jr., “The Kindle Swindle?,”
New York Times,
February 24, 2009.
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Brad Stone, “Amazon’s Hit Man,”
Bloomberg Businessweek,
January 25, 2012.
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Thomas L. Friedman, “Do You Want the Good News First?,”
New York Times,
May 19, 2012.
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“Contracts on Fire: Amazon’s Lending Library Mess,” AuthorsGuild.org, November 14, 2011.
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Richard Russo, “Amazon’s Jungle Logic,”
New York Times,
December 12, 2011.
Chapter 11: The Kingdom of the Question Mark
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George Anders, “Inside Amazon’s Idea Machine: How Bezos Decodes the Customer,”
Forbes,
April 4, 2012.
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Amazon’s Leadership Principles, http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?ie=UTF8&node=239365011.
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Luisa Kroll and Kerry A. Dolan, “The World’s Billionaires,”
Forbes,
March 4, 2013.
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David Dykstra, “Bezos Completes $28 Million Home Improvement,” Seattle-Mansions.Blogspot.com, October 1, 2010, http://seattle-mansions.blogspot.com/2010/10/bezos-completes-28-million-home.html.
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Rebecca Johnson, “MacKenzie Bezos: Writer, Mother of Four, and High-Profile Wife,”
Vogue,
February 20, 2013.
Brad Stone has covered Amazon and technology in Silicon Valley for fifteen years for publications such as
Newsweek
and the
New York Times.
He is currently a senior writer for
Bloomberg Businessweek
and lives in San Francisco, California. Visit him online at
www.brad-stone.com
.
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Contents
Chapter 7:
A Technology Company, Not a Retailer
Part III—MISSIONARY OR MERCENARY?
Chapter 10:
Expedient Convictions
Chapter 11:
The Kingdom of the Question Mark
Copyright © 2013 by Brad Stone
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