Mackenzie Bezos, novelist and husband of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, spoke publicly of the online retailer for the first time in an interview with The Times.

At a time when Amazon is being heavily criticized by many, be it for not paying their fair share of tax or their recent acquisition of Goodreads, it seems appropriate for Mackenzie Bezos, novelist and husband of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, to speak publicly about the online retail giant for the first time.

Bezos said she doesn't pay too much heed to what people are saying and how they are criticizing her husband's business, because according to her, people who are criticizing Amazon take the company to be a treat to their businesses.

"I think about how great [Amazon] is for me as a reader," Bezos said. "And that seems great for authors and books, too, to me."

Bezos recently chose Weidenfeld and Nicholson, rather than her husband's company, to publish her second novel, "Traps". In 2006, Harper Perennial published her first novel, "The Testing of Luther Albright", which was deemed by the Los Angeles Times as the book of the year. It reportedly took 10 years to write.

Although she did not choose to publish through one of Amazon's six publishing imprints or self-publish with the company, Bezos says she has heard success stories from authors who have taken this route.

"I guess I've come across so many contrasting stories," she told The Times. "On Saturday I was at a book event and another author came up to me and said she'd been writing in her free time, which is the way so many writers work."

Jeff Bezos has also defended his company's role in the publishing world. In a letter to shareholders in April 2012, Bezos wrote that Amazon is "creating powerful self-service platforms that allow thousands of people to boldly experiment and accomplish things that would otherwise be impossible or impractical. These innovative, large-scale platforms are not zero-sum - they create win-win situations and create significant value for developers, entrepreneurs, customers, authors, and readers."