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November 5, 2013 10:14 pm GMT
Early this morning, author Brad Stone replied to a one-star review given his book The Everything Store, about the meteoric rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Why an entire article to reply to one review? Because the review was written by none other than MacKenzie Bezos, Jeff's wife. The review called out inaccuracies in Stone's book, claimed that he didn't fact check things that he should have and took issue with the characterization of Bezos as cold. She also said that there were many positive things about Bezos and the company that Stone left out of the book because it didn't support his hypothesis. In Stone's response article today, he addresses the topic. “Bezos said that he married MacKenzie after searching for someone tenacious enough to break him out of a Third World prison. By that standard, I got off easy,” says Stone. “Mrs. Bezos mostly took me to task for what she perceived were subtle biases in my story.” Stone also addresses the factual errors that MacKenzie's review of the book appeared to call out: Mrs. Bezos also suggests that there are a handful of factual errors in my account. As a journalist with a two-decade record of accuracy, that troubles me a great deal more. I spoke to more than 300 people for my book-among them current and former Amazon employees, rivals, partners, and customers. They gave generously of their time, memories, and documents to help me fill in the gaps in Amazon's history that, as my sources pointed out, were sometimes left intentionally. Still, I'm not so high on my own authority to ignore the obvious: there are details of this story that only Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos can know. If they point to errors, I'll gladly correct them Today, Amazon VP of Global Communications Craig Berman gave TechCrunch a statement about Stone's reply in Businessweek. In the statement, he takes issue with a passage in Stone's piece: In the rebuttal Mr. Stone published in Bloomberg Businessweek today, he writes: “Bezos said that he married MacKenzie after searching for someone tenacious enough to break him out of a Third World prison. By that standard, I got off easy.” Entertaining, and inaccurate. Mr. Bezos says “resourceful” – not “tenacious.” Mr. Stone knows that. He also knows that the correct word doesn't work quite as well for his purpose. “Resourceful” and “tenacious” mean different things. They also have subtle
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Amazon Replies To Author's Reply To Amazon Founder's Wife's Criticism Of Book About Amazon
Early this morning, author Brad Stone replied to a one-star review given his book The Everything Store, about the meteoric rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Why an entire article to reply to one review? Because the review was written by none other than MacKenzie Bezos, Jeff's wife. The review called out inaccuracies in Stone's book, claimed that he didn't fact check things that he should have and took issue with the characterization of Bezos as cold. She also said that there were many positive things about Bezos and the company that Stone left out of the book because it didn't support his hypothesis. In Stone's response article today, he addresses the topic. “Bezos said that he married MacKenzie after searching for someone tenacious enough to break him out of a Third World prison. By that standard, I got off easy,” says Stone. “Mrs. Bezos mostly took me to task for what she perceived were subtle biases in my story.” Stone also addresses the factual errors that MacKenzie's review of the book appeared to call out: Mrs. Bezos also suggests that there are a handful of factual errors in my account. As a journalist with a two-decade record of accuracy, that troubles me a great deal more. I spoke to more than 300 people for my book-among them current and former Amazon employees, rivals, partners, and customers. They gave generously of their time, memories, and documents to help me fill in the gaps in Amazon's history that, as my sources pointed out, were sometimes left intentionally. Still, I'm not so high on my own authority to ignore the obvious: there are details of this story that only Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos can know. If they point to errors, I'll gladly correct them Today, Amazon VP of Global Communications Craig Berman gave TechCrunch a statement about Stone's reply in Businessweek. In the statement, he takes issue with a passage in Stone's piece: In the rebuttal Mr. Stone published in Bloomberg Businessweek today, he writes: “Bezos said that he married MacKenzie after searching for someone tenacious enough to break him out of a Third World prison. By that standard, I got off easy.” Entertaining, and inaccurate. Mr. Bezos says “resourceful” – not “tenacious.” Mr. Stone knows that. He also knows that the correct word doesn't work quite as well for his purpose. “Resourceful” and “tenacious” mean different things. They also have subtleOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JpBlpeI6HRs/
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