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Brad Stone Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Brad Stone is senior executive editor for global technology at Bloomberg News and author. Bloomberg Technology, Businessweek. Author of the books Amazon Unbound, The Upstarts, and The Everything Store. Retweets are usually mistaken clicks.

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Book Cover for: Influence Empire: Inside the Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition, Lulu Chen

Influence Empire: Inside the Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition

Lulu Chen
Brad StoneBrad Stone

"That Tencent has achieved international capitalist supremacy from a communist base is astonishing" writes @simonparkin in his review of @luluyilun's great new book Influence Empire – Inside the Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/13/influence-empire-by-lulu-chen-review-the-story-of-chinas-tencent?CMP=share_btn_tw

Hardcover, 2022

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, Stewart Brand

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Stewart Brand
Brad StoneBrad Stone

The books of @stewartbrand, like How Buildings Learn, and his seminal magazine Whole Earth Catalog, were the building blocks of Silicon Valley. Cant wait to dig into Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by the godfather @markoff. https://t.co/pYJMWOMjBB.

Paperback, 1995

$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand, John Markoff

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

John Markoff
Brad StoneBrad Stone

The books of @stewartbrand, like How Buildings Learn, and his seminal magazine Whole Earth Catalog, were the building blocks of Silicon Valley. Cant wait to dig into Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by the godfather @markoff. https://t.co/pYJMWOMjBB.

Hardcover, 2022

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside Youtube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Mark Bergen

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside Youtube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

Mark Bergen
Brad StoneBrad Stone

"What kind of Pandora's Box have we opened?" YouTube's tangle with extremism, an excerpt of @mhbergen's deep, satisfying book on YouTube (Like, Comment, Subscribe) which is really a history of Internet culture over the past 15 years. Must read in @bw:

Hardcover, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry, Jason Schreier

Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

Jason Schreier
Brad StoneBrad Stone

I interrupt this week's scheduled promotion of my own book to sing the virtues of another, Press Reset, by the incredible @jasonschreier, on the seedy underbelly of the game development industry. You'll never look at a video game the same way again. https://t.co/GW170B7B5y

Paperback, 2021

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Every, Dave Eggers

The Every

Dave Eggers
Brad StoneBrad Stone

Spoke to Dave Eggers about his upcoming novel The Every, a sequel to his 2013 best-selling tech apocalypse novel, The Circle. Spoiler: this one's even darker. In today's @technology Fully Charged newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-09-27/the-every-book-author-dave-eggers-on-his-sequel-to-the-circle

Paperback, 2021

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, Sarah Frier

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

Sarah Frier
Brad StoneBrad Stone

Congratulations @sarahfrier on this recognition of your insightful book, No Filter, about the rise of Instagram and influencer culture! Well deserved. https://t.co/rNVLiXRN5X

Paperback, 2021

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, Brad Stone

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

Brad Stone
Brad StoneBrad Stone

Today is pub day for the paperback of my book, Amazon Unbound! I've added an epilogue that covers the Bezos space jaunt, transfer of power to Andy Jassy, and Amazon's future in a post tech-bubble world. Get it at your local bookstore or library, or here: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Unbound-Invention-Global-Empire/dp/1982132620/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Proof: The Science of Booze, Adam Rogers

Proof: The Science of Booze

Adam Rogers
Brad StoneBrad Stone

Really looking forward to this. @jetjocko's previous book, Proof: The Science of Booze, has a permanent spot in my kitchen bar. https://t.co/Yr9mxrro9T

Paperback, 2015

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Circle, Dave Eggers

The Circle

Dave Eggers
Brad StoneBrad Stone

Spoke to Dave Eggers about his upcoming novel The Every, a sequel to his 2013 best-selling tech apocalypse novel, The Circle. Spoiler: this one's even darker. In today's @technology Fully Charged newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-09-27/the-every-book-author-dave-eggers-on-his-sequel-to-the-circle

Paperback, 2014

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book