Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

They started selling books on a new thing called the internet 25 years ago. Jeff Bezos figured out how to turn the digital highway into a fat green stack of cash now worth a ridiculous 1.3 trillion dollars. To get an understanding of the number 1.3 trillion think of a one dollar bill put end to end and how far that would go. The answer is 97 million miles or further than the distance of the earth to the sun. And then add another .3 trillion to that.

Amazon is into everything, much if it the public is unaware of. Amazon pretty much runs the internet for the Department of Defense under a subsidi...