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Amazon Chief's Spaceship Misfires ANDY PASZTOR The Wall Street Journal 09/02/2011	California taxes internet sales; Amazon ends deal with 25,000 CA websites Jan Norman Orange County Register 06/30/2011
An unmanned spaceship funded by Internet billionaire Jeff Bezos veered out of control and had to be destroyed during a recent test flight, highlighting the dramatic risks of private space ventures.	Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law California's tax on Internet sales through affiliate advertising which will immediately cut small-business website revenue 20% to 30%, experts say.
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Lady Gaga Album Demand Melts Down Amazon John Kell The Wall Street 05/23/2011	Amazon Takes Action in Illinois as War on Sales Taxes Continues STU WOO The Wall Street Journal 03/10/2011
Amazon.com Inc.’s one-day, 99-cent promotion of Lady Gaga’s highly anticipated second studio album, “Born This Way,” is resulting in downloading delays on the Internet retailer’s website due to high volume, the company said Monday.	Amazon.com Inc.'s battle with state governments over sales taxes is escalating. The online retailer on Thursday took action in Illinois, as it had threatened to do, to counter a new law aimed at forcing online retailers to collect sales taxes in the state. Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island have enacted similar laws, and California is weighing action. Amazon is also in a court battle with New York over such legislation.
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Connecticut Attorney General probes Apple, Amazon over e-books Yahoo! Finance 08/02/2010	Amazon Says E-Book Sales Outpace Hardcovers GEOFFREY A. FOWLER And JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG The Wall Street Journal 07/19/2010
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating deals struck by Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc to offer low prices on electronic books, saying the agreements may block rivals from providing attractive pricing.	Amazon.com Inc. said it reached a milestone, selling more e-books than hardbacks over the past three months. But publishers said it is still too early to gauge for the entire industry whether the growth of e-books is cannibalizing sales of paperback books, a huge and crucial market.
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Kindle is Amazon's Most-Gifted Holiday Item Ever Chloe Albanesius PC Magazine 12/27/2009	Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo unite against Google BBC News 08/21/2009
Amazon's Kindle e-book reader is now the most-gifted item in Amazon's history, the company announced recently.	Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive.
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Amazon 'glitch' removes sales rank from gay books HILLEL ITALIE AP 04/12/2009	Amazon follows Apple to $1.29 Matt Rosoff Cnet 04/07/2009
NEW YORK (AP) — A "glitch" on Amazon.com has caused the sales rank to be removed from gay- and/or lesbian-themed books by James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and others.	As expected, Apple on Tuesday introduced variable pricing on iTunes, meaning that some popular tracks now cost $1.29 instead of $0.99. Less expected: Amazon.com has followed Apple into the fray. Scroll down today's list of top downloads, and you'll see a few tracks at $1.29.
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