Jeff Bezos just bought The Washington Post for $250 million.
A quarter of a billion isn't exactly pocket change, but it's a pretty small sum from one of the most important newspapers in the country—a reflection of how shaky finances have become in the newspaper business.
In recent years, some much younger media companies have sold for more than $250 million, as have a yacht, a huge house, and even a painting.
Here are a few things that buyers judged to be more valuable than the Washington Post:
1. AOL bought the Huffington Post for $315 million in 2011
2. The royal family of Qatar bought Paul Cézanne's painting "The Card Players" for $259 million in 2011
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3. Instagram was sold to Facebook for $1 billion in 2012
4. Al- Jazeera bought Current TV for $500 million in 2013 from its founders including Al Gore
5. Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich bought this yacht, Eclipse, in 2010 for an estimated $1.5 billion
6. Larry Ellison bought a whole Hawaiian Island for $300 million from David Murdock in 2012
7. Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, bought this house for an estimated $1 billion in 2010
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