Bezosian

English

Etymology

Bezos +‎ -ian

Adjective

Bezosian (comparative more Bezosian, superlative most Bezosian)

1. Of or pertaining to Jeff Bezos, entrepreneur and CEO of Amazon.
   • 2014 August 12, Robin Lewis, Michael Dart, The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World's Toughest Marketplace, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 45:

     Forrester Research estimates that millennials will account for about 30 percent of all US retail sales by 2020.1 The convergence of the art and science of Retailing We use the phrase “the Jobsian and Bezosian Era” to represent the […]

   • 2016 November 1, Therese Walsh, Writer Unboxed, Author In Progress: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What It Really Takes to Get Published, Penguin, →ISBN:

     Thanks to the Bezosian Beelzebub in Seattle (Amazon.com, for those not yet in the know), publishers have been pressured to provide actual sales data (mon Dieu!) to their authors.

   • 2021 October 19, Mark McGurl, Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 57:

     This is how one might begin to move from the organic expression of Bezosian billionaire consciousness in the world of KDP to a more expansive account of contemporary fiction . The term “ real time ” dates from the early 1950s , when it […]