amazon.com affiliates

Posted on July 06, 2009 Corprew Reed

Some of our books/products are offered 'in affiliation with Amazon.com,' which lets you go directly from our site to Amazon's if you want to buy something. Currently, a lot of states who have budget shortfalls are attempting to make Amazon pay sales taxes in states where they have affiliates. We don't think this will affect us, because we're located in the same state as Amazon. I can actually see a large amazon office building as I write this. It isn't likely to affect us because Amazon already pays taxes in this state, so there'd be no reason for Washington to care. Obviously, there are a number of things that can affect this that we can't reasonably foresee, like amazon shutting down the program entirely because this gets too annoying to deal with, but it's in our opinion that providing these links is beneficial to our members and visitors and we plan to continue.