Thread: Bezos buys Washington Post. Really.
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Old 08-13-2013, 08:19 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
Agreed.

This brings up a plus for the Kindle eInk browsers (as well as for Calibre news). Those comments are rarely included in text-only web sites.

I suppose WaPo will be putting the content in my next link behind a paywall soon (maybe there is already an article limit), but, for now, to see what I mean:

http://www.readingthenet.com/mob?ct=...p=30&u=twp.com



I would really like this, and doubt that they would be able to sell enough tons of eInk ads to bother me. Of course, it depends on how much the eReader price goes up to pay for the new content.

And talking of price, how much would Amazon have to pay Bezos for this? I can't believe he would give it away, even to the company he founded. Indeed, it would be irresponsible for him to permanently give away WaPo's intellectual property, since he won't own that paper forever.

Here's my modest proposal for Bezos, should he adopt the wonderful Carnegie/Gates model of gradually giving away his fortune. Take the WaPo non-profit, giving it a quarter of your fortune as a starting endowment. This should be enough to guarantee continued existence of at least one outstanding news organization.
Your point being that an outstanding news organization cannot be profitable? I am sure Bezos has other ideas. And I hope he is showing the world how it is done so that others can follow and avoid the inevitable downfall.
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