[91397] in Cypherpunks
Borders books, was Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Thu Dec 4 18:42:02 1997
In-Reply-To: <199712040732.XAA14714@sirius.infonex.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:42:18 -0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
At 11:32 PM -0800 12/3/1997, Mix wrote:
>www.borders.com: "Borders is opening new stores almost
>every week. If there's not one near you now, there will
>be soon."
>
>This is depressing. Something has to be done about
>"free"-market capitalism. It is as destructive as
>government, and built on the same lies.
=46ortunately, this gives a significant price advantage to Web-based book=
stores, like Amazon.com, who can sell w/o adding state/local taxes. In=
fact Amazon has sued Barns & Nobel for, I believe, unfair competition=
claiming they were not adding these taxes to their on-line book orders. No=
doubt the major book sellers wishing to enter on-line sales will be looking=
for ways to avoid having to tax and the state attorneys general will be=
looking closely into enforcing their state sales and use taxes.
--Steve
