“The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest w/ Dana Mattioli

“The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.” w/ Dana Mattioli Book talk & signing @East End Books Boston Seaport - 6pm. Meet Dana earlier as well at 4pm. Reading & discussion at 6pm with Jennifer Levitz, Deputy Enterprise Editor, A-Heds, The Wall Street Journal.

followed by a reading at East End Books Boston Seaport at 6pm. Dana will be in conversation with Jennifer Levitz, Deputy Enterprise Editor, A-Heds, The Wall Street Journal.

The book signing meet & greet will be held at 4pm and talk at 6pm at East End Books Boston Seaport as part of Indie Bookstore Day. Buy the book in advance to ensure a signed copy.

A reading and discussion will be held at East End Books Boston Seaport. April 27th at 6pm. Tickets Here:

We will be getting additional signed copies of Dana's book. We can get personalized copies signed if you buy your book by April 26th or you can attend the book signing at 4pm and a talk at 6pm at East End Books Boston Seaport on Indie Bookstore Day - Saturday April

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"Will stand as a classic." - Christopher Leonard
"Riveting, shocking, and full of revelations." - Bryan Burrough

From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary.

In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin to a modern-day Standard Oil. Unlike Rockefeller's empire, however, Bezos's company had grown voraciously without much scrutiny. In fact, for over twenty years, Amazon had emerged as a Wall Street darling and 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. Lina Khan's paper would light a fire in Washington, and in a matter of years, she would become the head of the FTC. In 2023, the FTC filed a monopoly lawsuit against Amazon in what may become one of the largest antitrust cases in the 21st century.

With unparalleled access, and having interviewed hundreds of people - from Amazon executives to competitors to small businesses who rely on its marketplace to survive - 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. It has come to control most of online retail, and uses its own sellers' data to compete with them through Amazon's own private label brands. Millions of companies and governmental agencies use AWS, paying hefty fees for the service. And, the company has purposefully avoided collecting taxes for years, exploited partners, and even copied competitors--leveraging its power to extract whatever it can, at any cost. It has continued to gain market share in disparate areas, from media to logistics and beyond. Most companies dominate one or two industries; Amazon now leads in several. And all of this was by design.

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 lawsuit opens a window into the most consequential business story of our times.

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.

Prior to covering Amazon, Dana held one of the WSJ's highest profile beats covering mergers & acquisitions. During her 17-year career at WSJ she has produced a string of investigations and Page One stories on CEOs, boards of directors, technology companies and retailers. Dana is the recipient of a second Gerald Loeb award for breaking news, the SABEW breaking news award, two New York Press Club awards and was a finalist for the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Award. Dana has appeared on CNBC, Good Morning America, Fox Business News, and Cheddar. She was the subject of a Wall Street Journal advertisement campaign about how the newspaper's highest-profile stories came together.

Jennifer Levitz

Jennifer is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize public-service award, once for coverage with her Journal colleague Jon Kamp on the cancer-spreading risk of a surgical device known as the power morcellator, and with a team of Providence Journal reporters covering the Rhode Island nightclub fire. She was a reporter on the Varsity Blues college-admissions scandal is the co-author of "Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal," published in 2020.

At the Journal, she has covered finance, freight transportation and the USPS, and had a long run with the U.S. News team, where her experiences ranged from following an ICU doctor in the pandemic to reporting on presidential campaigns from Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In some of her favorite A-heds, she informed the world about truckers who knit, the etiquette of iPad tipping and nudist resorts that still required masks.

Before joining the Journal, she covered general news, health and cops for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island and worked as a city hall reporter at the Times-Advocate (Escondido, Calif.), an education (and everything else) reporter at the Temecula Daily Californian, and as a local-government reporter at the Poway News Chieftain. She is a native of Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

East End Books Boston Seaport, 300 Pier 4 Boulevard, Boston, United States