Books Quote by Brad Stone

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about…

— Jose Ferreira

“The Amazon.com system helped meet Bezos’s goal of creating a good experience for customers.”

— Richard L. Brandt

“Book publishers needed only to listen to Jeff Bezos himself to have their fears stoked. Amazon’s founder repeatedly suggested he had little reverence for…

— Brad Stone

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were…

— Franklin Foer

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when…

— George Packer

There's a whole line of critique about Amazon that's culture-based, about how they're wrecking the experience of bookstores. I personally am less focused on…

— Lina Khan

“His goal (Bezos's)was not just to make browsing for books easy, but an enjoyable experience. “People don’t just buy books because they need books,”…

— Richard L. Brandt

Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting…

— Virginia Postrel

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the…

— Hubert Burda

“Bill Miller, the chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management and a major Amazon shareholder, asked Bezos at the time about the profitability…

— Brad Stone

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr