An in-depth, revelatory, and unbiased look at Amazon’s world-dominating business model, the current competitors either imitating or trying to outfox Amazon, and the ways Bezonomics is shaping the life of every American consumer—from an award-winning Fortune magazine contributor.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brian Dumaine is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Fortune magazine. In addition to Bezonomics, his works include The Plot to Save the Planet, and, with three coauthors, Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy. He and his wife live in New York.

Author Brian Dumaine

BEZONOMICS

Like Henry Ford, Sam Walton, or Steve Jobs in the early years of Ford, Walmart, and Apple, Jeff Bezos is the business story of the decade. Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history with 2% of US household income being spent on nearly 500 million products shipped from warehouses in seventeen countries. Amazon’s business model has not only turned the retail industry and cloud computing inside out, but now its tentacles are squeezing media and advertising, and disrupting the state of technology, the economy, job creation, and society at large. Amazon’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates.

NEWS & EVENTS

Scaling Up Virtual Summit: Amazon and the pandemic
May 22. 2020, 3:20 ET
Fireside chat about Amazon with RBS analyst Brian Mahaney
May 21st, 2020 11 a.m. ET

Brian interviews Bank of America Chairman Chad Holliday

Brian in conversation with the CEO of Toyota North America.

Brian playing with Chuck Leavell of the Rolling Stones at a Washington Correspondents Dinner event

PRAISE

Brian Dumaine has written a touchstone book, significant in helping people understand some of the big underlying forces changing the world we live in. In fifty years, historians may look back at Bezonomics and point out that its choice of protagonist captured the essence of what was happening at the time—in our society, in our culture, and in our economy. Dumaine is a crisp and incisive writer, able to weave big, arcing themes with vivid details and narrative stories to make his insights come to life.

—Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t

More than any previous book, Bezonomics reveals why ‘the Amazon habit’ is one in which we all increasingly indulge. Dumaine spoke to many of the company’s top execs, walked the warehouse floors, and listened to the fears and forecasts of competitors. The result is an insightful look at how Jeff Bezos built a trillion-dollar colossus from a theory about customer engagement.

—Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable

Dumaine offers a lively history of Amazon’s huge success and forecasts its effect on 21st-century business.

—Kirkus Reviews

"What makes this book a great read, however, is the way Dumaine shines a light on the man who has made Amazon such a success."

The London Sunday Times

CONTACT

For media inquiries, please contact: Brian Belfiglio

For speaking engagements, please contact: Andy Whitehouse

For author queries, please contact: Brian Dumaine

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