11.04.13
A High Button Shit Fit
The New York Times devotes a story to Mrs. Jeff Bezos’ negative review of a book about the empire of Bezos.
America’s plutocrats are vain and egotistical. This is unsurprising. There’s a long record of those who have everything vehemently objecting to anything not done exactly to their liking:
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has yet to make a public peep about “The Everything Store,??? a major biography of Mr. Bezos and his company that was published last month.
But his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, has made her displeasure known — on the book’s Amazon.com page.
In a scathing 922-word review posted on Monday, Ms. Bezos described the book, written by Brad Stone, as “a lopsided and misleading portrait of the people and culture at Amazon.???
The review is 922 words long, informs the Times.
“Ms. Bezos, who grew up in San Francisco, is the author of a novel, ‘Traps,’ that was published by Knopf in March,” writes the Times reporter.
The news of Ms. Bezos’ displeasure has all but obliterated any links about her novels — there are two — in Google search results.
We’d all like book contracts. I know I would. And I can make a good case why I should have the opportunity to write a new book.
I am also reasonably sure that more people have read what I’ve had to say over the years than have bought “Traps.” And it’s still not an astounding number.
The empire of Bezos, the tech industry’s equivalent of giant hogweed — from the archives.
Earnings on Mechanical Turk today: $0.75