Thanks to Bufo Calvin over at I Love My Kindle for spreading the word about this rather cryptic Amazon Community Forums statement by Amazon Kindle Customer Service. There will be plenty of confusion, plenty of interpretations, and eventually — one would hope — some operational clarification by Amazon. But I will wait for Amazon to do its own work there rather than attempt to play lawyer, accountant, or swami, except to share the information that Bufo has posted some interesting points about this issue here and here:

Initial post: Apr. 6, 2010 5:29 PM PDT

Amazon Kindle Customer Service says:

Several publishers have recently changed the nature of their relationship with Amazon, moving to a business model whereby the publisher, not Amazon, is the seller of record for their books. Kindle books sold under this model are subject to sales tax based on the publisher’s state tax reporting obligations and the taxability of digital books in those states. Books where the publisher is the seller of record say “This price was set by the publisher.” Nothing has changed with respect to sales taxes on Kindle books where Amazon is the seller of record.

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