Jeff Bezos Buys the Washington Post

By Seattle Magazine Staff August 5, 2013

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!–paging_filter–pFile this under your unpredictable, out-of-the-blue Monday afternoon news: a href=”http://seattlebusinessmag.com/blog/bezos-buys-washington-post-1” target=”_blank”emSeattle Business/em magazine just blogged that Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos /ais purchasing emThe Washington Post/em, according to the newspaper. br /br /emSeattle Business/em managing editor John Levesque writes:/p
pemThe Post/em reports that Bezos will pay $250 million in cash for the Post and affiliated publications. Amazon is not involved in the deal. emThe Post/em quotes Bezos as saying he does not have a concrete plan for the newspaper going forward and that it is “uncharted terrain.”br /br /Read emThe Washington Post/em’s take on it a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jef…” target=”_blank”here/a./p

 

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