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Discover the fascinating stories behind some of the biggest brands around!

Table of Contents

• 1: The everything store
• 2: The birth of the business
• 3: Growing the company
• 4: Amazon goes public
• 5: Dotcom boom and bust
• 6: Facing competition
• 7: International expansion
• 8: Hits and misses
• 9: Life at Amazon HQ
• 10: Never standing still
• 11: The battle for eBooks
• 12: What does the future hold for Amazon?
• 13: Do you have what it takes to work at Amazon?

About the Author

Adam Sutherland is an award-winning journalist and non-fiction writer with over 20 years' experience in the industry. He has written for publications including The Observer, Wired and Esquire magazines, and has won the PPA Specialist Writer of the Year Award for his coverage of sport, and a BSME award for Young Writer of the Year. He started his writing career covering bands and music for style magazines The Face, i-D and Arena, but more recently has expanded to cover film, new media and business. He has written a series of business titles for young adults on companies such as Nike, Google and Facebook, and biographies of rapper Jay-Z and Apple founder Steve Jobs.