Stone said in an interview that Amazon and Bezos did not cooperate with him. He said he stands by his book and spoke to hundreds of people about the events described in the book, and also fact-checked with employees, partners and rivals of Bezos.
"They made it clear that Jeff (Bezos) wasn't going to participate in the fact-checking. So when it came to the moments in the story that only he would have had knowledge of, there was nothing I could do," Stone said.
He added that the company did not make MacKenzie Bezos available for interviews. Stone, who works at Bloomberg, said he has been covering technology for 20 years. The book, which came out on October 15, has garnered positive reviews. The New York Times called it "an engrossing chronicle."
Stone said that Amazon has not threatened any legal action.
Reagan Arthur, publisher of Little, Brown, which released the book, said in an e-mail that Stone "scrupulously sourced and reported his book about Jeff Bezos and Amazon over the course of 300 interviews and two years of research."
The book has been "reviewed widely and praised for its evenhandedness," she added.
MacKenzie, who met Bezos in 1992 when she worked at hedge fund D.E. Shaw, said she had firsthand knowledge of many of the events in the book and has been married to Bezos for 20 years. She also said the book stretches the boundaries of non-fiction and uses narrative tricks to misrepresent the culture of Amazon.
Stone said he was making minor changes to his book based on MacKenzie Bezos review, including changing the date when Bezos read the novel "Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Stone called these changes small tweaks and added that "in an account of this size, some mistakes were inevitable."
(Reporting by Liana B. Baker; Editing by Ken Wills)
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