The Everything War

From veteran Amazon reporter for the Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is a searing exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying competition to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary. Amazon is a behemoth in the truest sense of the word. It might be synonymous with shopping, but the company now dominates a dozen industries beyond retail. As it turns out, the Amazon that Jeff Bezos invented is fundamentally driven by a competitive edge that will stop at nothing -if Amazon could own the world and be everywhere, it would. Currently, the company is under investigation in US Congress, at the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, and the European Union for potential anticompetitive business practices. In The Everything War, award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli follows this unfolding battle, exploring the infamous rise of Bezos and exposing how Amazon has become too big for antitrust investigators to ignore. While Amazon's business practices grow to monopolistic proportions, international authorities are quickly discovering that Amazon is an adversary unlike any they have ever faced. Using meticulous reporting, Mattioli reveals how Jeff Bezos learned to leverage his influence in the corridors of power, preparing for this fight he always knew would come. This book unveils a side of Amazon, and its leader, that has never been told before: its ruthless, competitive, killer instinct to destroy everything in its wake for dominance. Amazon's rise to supremacy is reaching a boiling point, and now squarely in the crosshairs of multiple international governments looking into its practices. Mattioli's The Everything War broaches this question: has the company become too powerful- and too enmeshed with public interests- to stop?