Amazon has eaten our beloved Book Depository

I have been buying books online for pretty much as long as it has been possible to do so, and I have never even heard of Book Depository.

That'll be why Amazon is buying them and not the other way 'round. And presumably, the founders who worked hard to build up the business are delighted with the pay out. The only people not to be happy it seems are journos with an overblown sense of paranoia about "corporations".