Amazon Unbound
By Brad Stone

From the bestselling author ofand The Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time.With the publication ofand The Everything Storeand in 2013,and Bloombergand journalist Brad Stone revealed how the unlikely Seattle start-up Amazon became an unexpectedand king of ecommerce. Since then, its founder has led Amazon to explosive growth in both size and wealth. In less than ten years, Amazon has quintupled the size of its workforce and increased its valuation to well over a trillion dollars. Whereas Amazon used to sell only books, there is now little they don't sell, becoming theand world's largest online retailerand and pushing into other markets at warp speed. Between Amazon's forty subsidiaries - like Whole Foods Market, Amazon Studios in Hollywood, websites likeand Goodreadsand and IMDb, and Amazon Web Services cloud software unit, plus Bezos's purchase of theand Washington Post -and it's almost impossible to go a day without encountering their goods. Amazon provides us opportunities to shop, entertain, inform, communicate, store and, one day, maybe even travel to the moon.and We live in a world run, supplied and controlled by Amazon.Inand Amazon Unbound, Stone offers the must-read follow-up to his bestsellerand The Everything Store, detailing theand seismic changesand that have taken place at Amazon over the past decade as it became one of the most powerful and feared companies in the global economy, led by one of the most powerful and feared leaders in business. He shows the acquisitions and innovations that have propelled Amazon's unprecedented growth, and the turn in public sentiment that criticises Amazon's monopolistic practices. As he charts the company's meteoric rise, Stone probes theand evolution of Jeff Bezosand - who started as a geeky entrepreneur but who transformed to become a fit, famed, disciplined billionaire, a man who runs Amazon with an iron fist but finds his personal life splashed over the tabloids.Definitive, timely and revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn't imagine modern life without.