**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE
YEAR 2024**
‘Riveting and explosive. This is the business story of our time.’
Christopher Leonard, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kochland and The
Lords of Easy Money
'A hard-hitting analysis of Amazon’s dominance. Makes a compelling case that
no company should be this powerful.'
Financial Times
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From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The
Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's
endless strategic greed, its pursuit of total domination, by any means
necessary, and the growing efforts to stop it.
For over twenty years, Amazon was the quintessential American success story,
whilst its “customer obsession” approach made it indelibly attractive to
consumers across the globe. But the company was not benevolent; it operated in
ways that ensured it stayed on top, coming to dominate over a dozen industries
beyond retail, growing voraciously by abusing data, exploiting partners,
copying competitors, and avoiding taxes―leveraging its power to extract
whatever it could, at any cost and without much scrutiny. Until now.
With unparalleled access, and having interviewed hundreds of people – from
Amazon executives to competitors to small businesses who rely on its
marketplace to survive – Dana Mattioli exposes how Amazon was driven by a
competitive edge to dominate every industry it entered, bulldozed all who stood
in its way, reshaped the retail landscape, transformed how Wall Street
evaluates companies, and altered the very nature of the global economy.
In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission filed a monopoly lawsuit against Amazon
in what may become one of the largest antitrust cases in the 21st century. As
Amazon’s supremacy is finally challenged, The Everything War is
the definitive, inside story of how it grew into one of the most powerful and
feared companies in the world – and why this is the most consequential business
story of our times.
Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award 2024, announced August
2024.
About the Author
Dana Mattioli has been a reporter for The Wall
Street Journal since 2006. She has written investigative pieces and Front Page
stories about Amazon since 2019 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
Investigative Journalism for her work on Amazon. Her Amazon coverage also
received the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting.
In 2021, she received the WERT Prize, an award from the
Women’s Economic Round Table that honors excellence in comprehensively reported
business journalism for her Amazon investigations, and received a Front Page
Award for her Amazon coverage.