I can't speak for the writer, and one can only speculate, but here goes: Two suggestions seen (here on HN?) recently: (a) Washington Post is influential "insid

I can't speak for the writer, and one can only speculate, but here goes: Two suggestions seen (here on HN?) recently: (a) Washington Post is influential "inside the beltway" (b) its book reviews can influence buying on Amazon. These putative purposes may be in tension with the idea that print newspapers are going away, but may be viable if Wapo will stay in another form (at least the website). Also maybe adding some sort of news service into Amazon-related products, a subscription or such. (The article is convincing about Amazon playing a smart or fortunate business strategy, but doesn't live up to the headline.)