Is Amazon a great company, or what? As aficionados of innovation (and, face it, recreational online shopping), it’s been a pleasure to watch the company become a retailing giant. Trouble is, Amazon has been as innovative in its campaign to avoid collecting state sales taxes as …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Amazon, California, Dick Durbin, sales tax | Category: Tax Policy |
 Leave a comment“The Cloud” is certainly the buzz-phrase du jour as the behemoth IT companies rush to offer remote storage “in the cloud” for everything from document files to home videos. You get the convenience of easy access to the stuff on a variety of devices in a variety of places. They … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Amazon, Apple, Google, iCloud, iTunes, Microsoft | Category: Consumer Protection, Mobile Telephone Regulation |
One commentIf you’re hooked (like us) on Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader, you’ve probably noticed that book prices have gone up a bit since Amazon caved into most publishers’ demands that the giant retailer work on commission – so called agency pricing – rather than setting its own prices. The publishers’ logic … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Amazon, Donald Marron, e-books, monopsony, predatory pricing | Category: Competition Policy, Quick Takes |
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