As is typical for unofficial/non-approved bios, several people with personal knowledge of events described in the book questioning accuracy. Most notably, Mrs Bezos:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-576...ng-store-book/
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MacKenzie Bezos plucked out a detail that, according to her, is incorrect -- the timing of when Jeff Bezos read the novel "Remains of the Day" that inspired some of his business ideals. She pointed to two other reviews that were supposedly written by one current Amazon executive and a former one. The two reviews also said some details were wrong but still gave the book four and three stars.
"If this were an isolated example, it might not matter, but it's not," MacKenzie Bezos wrote in her review. "Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge, I find way too many inaccuracies, and unfortunately that casts doubt over every episode in the book. Like two other reviewers here, Jonathan Leblang and Rick Dalzell, I have firsthand knowledge of many of the events."
She also didn't like how her husband was portrayed as relentlessly goal-oriented and, at times, harsh in manner.
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