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Fortune goes long on Amazon and taxes
How the retailer manipulated a broken government system to get an unfair advantage
By Ryan Chittum May 24, 2013 at 06:50 AM
I've been following the Amazon tax-avoidance story for years now, and I haven't seen it better-told than it is on... More
Harry Potter Hits the E-Book Market
By Ryan Chittum Mar 29, 2012 at 05:42 PM
I've never understood quite why, in a digital age that allows companies to sell directly to their customers, that book... More
The Morning Call Revisits Amazon’s Work Conditions
Allentown workers baked in the summer, froze in the winter
By Ryan Chittum Nov 11, 2011 at 03:48 PM
Remember that Morning Call investigation a couple of months ago into an Amazon sweatshop outside Allentown, Pennsylvania? The paper showed... More
The Morning Call’s Amazon Sweatshop Probe
An excellent investigation exposes poor conditions at a big Pennsylvania warehouse
By Ryan Chittum Sep 23, 2011 at 07:52 PM
What's going on with labor in Pennsylvania? It was just last month that foreign students working at Hershey's for the... More
The Seattle Times Takes On Hometown Amazon
A tough series on the dark side of the booming local company
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Here in Seattle, Amazon is growing like crazy, adding thousands of jobs and building several skyscrapers just off downtown, something... More
WSJ Fronts Amazon’s Tax Avoidance Strategy
Color-coded maps tell employees which states are safe, bad, and neutral
By Ryan Chittum Aug 3, 2011 at 06:38 PM
It's nice to see The Wall Street Journal take a page-one look at Amazon's aggressive tax avoidance, something I've written... More
Adventures With E-books, Kindle Single Edition
By Felix Salmon Sep 14, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Ryan Avent’s 90-page Kindle single, The Gated City, is a bargain at $1.99. It was produced in close consultation with... More
Amazon Bolts Texas’s “Unfavorable Regulatory Environment”
But there’s more to the story than we get from the AP and The Dallas Morning News
By Ryan Chittum Feb 11, 2011 at 02:07 PM
The Associated Press reports that Amazon is closing its Texas warehouse due to—and this is a direct Amazon quote—the state's... More
Amazon sharecroppers
The Seattle Times on the hometown giant’s uneasy relationship with its merchants
By Ryan Chittum Nov 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle Times has another good story on Amazon, this time reporting on the hometown giant's lopsided relationship with its... More
Amazon takes a tax hit, finally
Reuters reports early signs that collecting sales taxes affected the company’s sales
By Ryan Chittum Jan 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters reports that Amazon's fourth quarter results may take a hit from new laws that force it to collect sales... More
Amazon’s California Tax Battle
Fighting to delay the end of its unfair advantage
By Ryan Chittum Sep 6, 2011 at 02:37 PM
While billionaire Jeff Bezos is off crashing spaceships (or wannabe spaceships, anyway) in the West Texas desert, his company's unfair... More
Amazon’s California tax squeeze
A WSJ follow story waters down an LAT scoop from two weeks ago
By Ryan Chittum May 31, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Amazon's long run of not paying collecting state and local sales taxes is coming to an end as legislatures finally... More
Amazon’s German labor fiasco
A subcontractor employed neo-Nazi guards to patrol immigrant workers
By Ryan Chittum Feb 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The story of Amazon's treatment of workers took a sensational turn last week when German public television revealed that temporary... More
Audit Notes: Amazon and antitrust, techspeak, ‘Peter Drucker with an Afro’
The DOJ’s ebook settlement could enable anticompetitive behavior
By Ryan Chittum Sep 12, 2012 at 01:33 AM
The Los Angeles Times's Michael Hiltzik gets it on Amazon and the Justice Department's seriously misguided antitrust lawsuit against book... More
Audit Notes: Amazon turns on the A/C, Fairfax’s taxes, Ponzify
By Ryan Chittum Jun 6, 2012 at 11:53 PM
The Morning Call's Spencer Soper follows up on his Amazon sweatshop investigation, and reports that the company has since spent... More
Audit Notes: Amazon’s shell company, The Lens, Plain Dealer cuts
Reuters unwinds how the online retail giant avoided taxes via Luxembourg
By Ryan Chittum Dec 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Reuters has a nice investigation into Amazon's vigorous tax avoidance, and this time it's not about sales taxes. The wire... More
Audit Notes: Carr on Amazon, Muni Broadband, Too Big to Fail
By Ryan Chittum Apr 16, 2012 at 07:49 PM
David Carr's New York Times column today on Amazon, Apple, and the book publishers is excellent. He calls the Department... More
Audit Notes: Ebooks, Amazon, and Apple Edition
By Ryan Chittum Apr 13, 2012 at 08:05 PM
Barry C. Lynn, author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, writes a good Slate piece... More
Audit Notes: Insufferable in Aspen, Libor, Amazon Marketplace
Ending universal suffrage intrigues a CNBCer
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2012 at 08:07 PM
CNBC's John Carney finally heard an idea that intrigued him at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Ending universal suffrage: His argument... More
Audit Notes: Lehman’s Green Monster, Sands Storm, Amazon Taxes
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2011 at 07:55 PM
Bloomberg's Christine Harper Richard and Bob Ivry circle back to the Fenway deal Lehman Brothers made with Hudson Castle that... More
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