Comment: What Bezos's Washington Post deal says about retail and HMV

HMV Oxford St store in the 1950s

Source: Reproduced courtesy of HMV by permission of The EMI Archive TrustEMI Music Limited

Amazon is as much a media business as it is a retailer, so are there retail lessons to be learned from the etailer’s founder Jeff Bezos’s acquisition of US newspaper the Washington Post?

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