https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/19/amazon_fy2017_earnings/ >Amazon has announced the yield from its money mine for the full year 2017: on full-year sales of US$178 billion, it generated an operating income of $4 billion and net income of $3 billion. >The Bezos Bunch pulled most of its retail business in the Christmas period, since as we reported in February, Q4 2017 netted $1.9 billion, nearly two-thirds of its net income.