Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' wife ★ added one in Amazon reviews and criticized Amazon's non-fiction book

To ultra-giant enterprises with sales of 6 trillion yenAmazonNonfiction work depicting the success story of Mr. Jeff Bezos, the founder who brought up "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon"Was published in October 2013, but what a Bezos's wifeMackenzie BezosBought a review on Amazon's page with his real name, and found that the rating has the lowest rank "star one".

Amazon.co.jp: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon: Brad Stone:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/0316239909


This work is a journalist'sBrad StoneWritten by Mr. It depicts a story from the background of Bezos to the success of Amazon, and this incident occurred while reviewing that gives high evaluation to the content depicting Amazon's success story.

Amazon.com: MacKenzie Bezos' review of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the A ...
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2I0T26SV0ELPP/

This is the page where Mr. McKenzie got a comment. As a title beside the indication of "☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆", it says "I wanted to like this book."


Looking at the bottom, you can see that Mr. McKenzie is buying this book properly at Amazon properly and reviewing it. Moreover, personality is oozing out around daringly buying a hard cover version rather than a Kindle version.


At the beginning of the review Mr. McKenzie pointed out as follows. "This is written in the first chapter:" When Mr. Bezos was thinking about what to start after quit his former job, Kazuo Ishiguro who depicted the sincere personality of a British deaconess novel"Remains of the day"I read. It is written. As a sentence of introduction is a good sentence, but this is a mistake. It was around a year since Jeff had read Amazon's "Remains of the Day."


Mr. McKenzie pointed out that there are many mistakes in this book from the experience of having shared public and private for 20 years with her husband Mr. Bezos and as follows, "There is an inaccurate part in this book It is too much and I have questioned the authenticity of all the episodes written in it. "


Another problem is also pointed out "People working at Amazon and business culture are conveyed in a biased manner".


And Mr. McKenzie urges readers to pay attention as follows. "There are phrases as if Jeff told us many times," Mr. Bezos thought like this "or" something was inspired in Mr. Bezos's head. "However, To the readersJeff has never been interviewed by the authorI would like you to remember that. And, in this quotation part which is decided arbitrarily like this, as it is to enhance the authenticityfootnoteIt is also said that it is attached. "


Meanwhile, there is also a first act showing a certain understanding as "There is a specific difficulty in nonfiction works that makes it uninteresting if it draws only the facts indiscriminately." However, even if it is "even if you draw non-fiction, you need to understand that it is not appropriate to create a story exciting technique by reworking the figure or losing important facts."


In addition, he previously served as senior vice president at Amazon, and from retirement, Mr. BezosSpecial commentMr. Rick Dalzell who has been posted to the review has posted the review, and has three stars as "content is interesting, incomplete and biased history".


In response to this book, "It is certain that interesting things are certain, but there are facts that are not mentioned or it is incorrect," and "The author overlooked part of the personality such as Bezos' warmth, humor, empathy I am commenting. "


Also, Jonathan Leblang, who also served as an executive officer at Amazon, has a 4 star rating with a "funny but incomplete" review.


Mr. Leblang, who has been walking with Mr. Bezos for a long time, said, "80% of the content of the book is correct, but the remaining 20% ​​is wrong, so do not doubt the authenticity of the part I do not grasp Although it says "I can not get it," "It is still recommended that this book is recommended," appearing in general good impression.


Based on this evaluation, Mr. Brad Stone who is the author belongs to himselfBloomberg BusinessweekI made an objection on the website of.

Responding to MacKenzie Bezos's One-Star Slapdown - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-05/responding-to-mackenzie-bezoss-one-star-slapdown


"The review is well written, interesting, and has a good grasp of the difficulty of building biographies without the 100% cooperation of stakeholders," Stone said.


"The occupation of a writer is biased towards a nervous moment when the human nature of a person appears best, no matter how objective the objective is.I believe that Amazon, which started with only three people, I tried to depict that wonderful story that hired a person.In the process of trembling with its success and failure, there is also a moment that is not fun, "he refutes the contents of the work.


On top of that, there are things that only the Mr. and Mr. Bezos knows about. If you point out that there is something wrong with my work, I'd be happy to accept it, but there are still a lot of Please also be aware that you have not refuted the episode, Mrs. Bezos, and the reviewers who posted many comments, I would like to thank you all and it is beneficial to all readers and authors like myself And this is why I am putting my life in this world. "


Furthermore, even in Japan "Jeff Bezos The Endless Ambition"It is scheduled to be released on December 19, but" Introduction of contents "includes" Assisting Jeff Bezos himself, who dislikes the mass communication, as well as coverage for himself, Amazon executives, relatives, former colleagues Written by veteran reporters of Bloomberg · Business Week magazine based on extensive coverage to the surroundings "and Mr. Mackenzie's wife"Jeff has never been interviewed by the authorIt is obviously inconsistent with the refutation that it is "an objection".