The Everything Store by Brad Stone
Published 2013 · 95,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Biography, Business & Self-Help, Media & Technology, Nonfiction
How hard is The Everything Store to read?
The Everything Store scores 18 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 22 out of 100
- Tech and business vocabulary. Accessible.
- Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
- Abstraction: 25 out of 100
- Narrative business history. Concrete.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Dense with business detail and insider accounts.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Roughly chronological. Clear structure.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Amazon as symbol of tech-era capitalism.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Admiring but clear-eyed about Bezos's costs.
- Resolution withholding: 100 out of 100
- Amazon keeps growing. The story is unfinished.
- Structural complexity: 22 out of 100
- Three parts covering Amazon's evolution.
How The Everything Store is regarded
The Everything Store holds a literary regard score of 40 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.