Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of online retail giant Amazon, will buy The Washington Post for $250 million, the newspaper revealed in a surprise announcement today.

The Washington Post is finally getting with the program that subscription-based newspapers shouldn’t be giving themselves away for free on the Internet and is reportedly considering the addition of a paywall next year.

The Washington Post Company’s chairman has been resistant to erecting an online paywall around his flagship newspaper, but he might be rethinking his stance.