Jeff Bezos wife rips book about Amazon over 'numerous factual inaccuracies'

(UPI) -- MacKenzie Bezos claims Brad Stone's new book about her husband Jeff Bezos and his company, Amazon, has "numerous factual inaccuracies."

In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, Stone tells the story of Amazon since it began as a mail book-delivery service, but according to Bezos, the book presents "a lopsided and misleading portrait of the people and culture at Amazon."

Bezos, a novelist, fittingly made her criticisms in a review of the book on Amazon.com. She titled her rating "I wanted to like this book" and gave the book a lonely one star.

In her review, Bezos called Stone's reporting "unbalanced" and said he underplayed positive accounts from company employees.

Although she only mentioned one specific inaccuracy -- the book states that Jeff Bezoz read the novel Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro before starting Amazon, and according to her, he read it a year after starting the company -- Bezos claims "too many inaccuracies" cast "doubt on every episode in the book."

Amazon's vice president for global communications, Craig Berman, confirmed Bezos' claim and said that Stone "had every opportunity to thoroughly fact check and bring a more balanced viewpoint to his narrative, but he was very secretive about the book and simply chose not to."

Stone, a journalist with Bloomberg Businessweek, said he had no hidden agenda while writing the book.

"My job as an author was to balance the often wildly disparate perspectives to get at the truth," he said. "I didn't come to it with any agenda other than to tell the missing story of one of the defining companies of our age."

Stone said Jeff Bezoz declined to be interviewed because he thought it was "too early" to reflect on the company. In the book, he described the Amazon CEO as a brilliant man, drawing from a dozen interviews he'd done with him in the past.

Despite Bezos' poor review, The Everything Store averaged 4.6 stars out of 5 as of Monday evening.