Amazon Buys Zappos; The Price is $928m., not $847m. News has just broken that Amazon.com has purchased hot ecommerce up-and-comer Zappos for 10 million Amazon shares or $880 million. (The Amazon release said it was $807 million, but that was based on a trailing 45-day estimate of its share price. Closing price today bumps the deal up to $880 $888 million.) Zappos employees also will get $40 millio
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