Martti's Reviews > One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

First I was surprised to see yet another book about Amazon in my little library app and then I was even more surprised to find out the Brad Stone's book being published 2 years after this one! The main difference seems to be that the 2013 Everything Store had insider access to Amazon so the account might be more accurate on some details, but Richard L Brandt has written a pretty solid chronology of the company. And when the history seemed to be cut off around 2011, I was totally caught off guard. I totally expected this to be a shiny new summary of the one of the world's biggest companies. This one totally misses out on the rise of AWS, Alexa and all the weird-ass new devices that I still cannot believe people are actually letting into their homes. Furthermore, actually paying money for the company to install spying devices into their living quarters. But sadly this needs a "vol 2" of the summary. In that sense it's another case of a "biography" written too early.

Today you probably don't have any good reason to read this one instead of Brad Stone's book, not that it was substantially better, but at least it has 2 more years worth of data. But of course I would much rather have read the 2019 updated edition of either of those books to get a short summary of what the behemoth has been up to lately.