Is this a stellar example of why CEOs/owners of large companies shouldn't be allowed to buy newspapers? Outside of a monopoly (Amazon's legally unrecognized monopoly or effective whatever close to it), companies would all be too small for this to be worthwhile, but for a company that big, it would make financial sense even to buy WP for a few hundred million dollars. In 2013, Amazon made $74b gross and $274m net (last year it net $78b).