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Businessweek’s Stone wins Book of the Year

Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Brad Stone won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2013 for “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.”

The book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.

The award, which recognizes the book that provides “the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues,” was presented Monday evening to Stone in London by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times and chair of the panel of judges, and Lloyd C. Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer, The Goldman Sachs Group.

Stone won a £30,000 prize (about $48,297 as of today’s currency conversion rate). Each of the five runners-up received a check for £10,000 (about $16,099 as of today’s currency conversion rate).

“This is an inspirational business book which captures the culture of Amazon and the character of its founder Jeff Bezos,” said Barber in a statement. “A must-read for disrupters around the world.”

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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