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Our View: State to benefit from Amazon deal
The multitudes in California who buy items via Amazon.com are going to have to start paying a state sales tax as of this weekend. That is bad news, particularly for those in rural areas such as ours who tend to rely on Amazon.com to provide items...Tags: Taxation, Politics, E-Commerce Industry
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Group seeks Amazon boycott over sales tax fight
SACRAMENTO -- A coalition of nonprofit groups is calling on customers of Amazon.com to cancel their accounts unless the Internet retailer stops resisting a California law that requires more online retailers to charge a state sales tax. The nonprofits...Tags: Referenda, Lawyers, Voting, Health, Arts and Culture
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New book by Jim Mersereau, "Walking With Paul" released
CHATTANOOGA, TN — Foresight Publishing Group, Inc. announced the release of the book by Jim Mersereau, “Walking with Paul” A Journey through the Lessons of Ephesians.
In “Walking with Paul” Jim explains that the...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Christianity, Science, File Sharing, Baptist
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Dick Fitch to release "LIttle Pine," his third children's book
Former Imperial Valley Press publisher and now resident of Kerrville, Texas, Dick Fitch, is about to release his third children's book titled Little Pine. Little Pine, is a children's story about a little pine tree that wanted all his short life to...Tags: Christmas, Book
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Amazon cuts off California affiliates
SAN FRANCISCO -- Amazon.com Inc. and much smaller Overstock.com Inc. are cutting off their advertising affiliates in California because of a new state rule forcing online retailers to collect sales tax there. In an email Wednesday to California-based...Tags: Executive Branch, Local Government, Arts and Culture, Politics, Illinois
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Llega Gaga al primer lugar... con 'trampa'
Adelante ValleMÉXICO, DF - En medio de la avalancha de críticas de toda índole vertidas tanto por expertos como por los fans, el disco Born This Way, de Lady Gaga, consiguió debutar en el primer lugar de ventas en Estados Unidos con más de 100 mil copias certificadas...Tags: Taylor Swift, Born This Way (song), Disco (genre), Lady Gaga, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Barefoot Books breaks up with Amazon
Barefoot Books is a small house based in Cambridge, Mass., that publishes children’s book. As of this week, you can call it “The Mouse that Roared.” The people who run Barefoot Books are frustrated with the business practices of...Tags: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Literature, Amazon Kindle, Arts and Culture, FAO Schwarz
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Half of investments in emerging markets go via tax havens -study
ReutersLONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Nearly half of the money that multinationals and wealthy investors poured into emerging markets in 2011 came via tax havens, resulting in revenue losses for poor countries, anti-poverty campaigners ActionAid said in a report....Tags: Google Inc., Starbucks Corp., David Cameron, G8, Summits
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The New DSM – The Bible Of Psychiatry – Arrives Amid Debate
The Hartford CourantBinge eating and hoarding both get their own categories, while Asperger syndrome is no longer recognized as a diagnosis in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — better known as the DSM-5 — which comes...Tags: Mental Illness, Autism, Behavioral Conditions, Psychiatry, Health
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Pearson agrees $75 million settlement in U.S. e-books case
ReutersLONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - British publisher Pearson's Penguin unit said on Wednesday it would pay $75 million in damages plus costs to U.S. states and consumers as part of an agreement over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market. Pearson, which will...Tags: Justice System, Antitrust Issues, Prices, Lawyers, Judges
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Amazon launches project to monetize fan fiction: Kindle Worlds
Amazon has a plan to monetize fan fiction: It's called Kindle Worlds. On Wednesday, Amazon announced a new scheme in which writers of fan fiction can self-publish and sell that writing with the sanction of the original copyright holder. The idea is that...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Literature, Stephenie Meyer, Amazon Kindle, Arts and Culture
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European leaders take on corporate tax avoidance
LONDON -- European leaders gathered in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss how to clamp down on multinational companies that exploit loopholes or set up complex accounting schemes to lower their tax bills. Taking on an issue that has also become...
Tags: Google Inc., Starbucks Corp., France, G8, David Cameron
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