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Amazon. com has attracted criticism from multiple sources, where the ethics of certain business practices and policies have been drawn into question. Amazon has also faced numerous allegations of anti competitive or monopolistic behavior. Anti competitive practiceseditOne click patenteditThe company has been controversial for its alleged use of patents as a competitive hindrance. The 1 Click patent1 is perhaps the best known example of this. Amazons use of the one click patent against competitor Barnes Nobles website led the Free Software Foundation to announce a boycott of Amazon in December 1. The boycott was discontinued in September 2. On February 2. 2, 2. Internet based customer referral system, or what is commonly called an affiliate program. Industry leaders Tim OReilly and Charlie Jackson spoke out against the patent,4 and OReilly published an open letter5 to Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, protesting the 1 click patent and the affiliate program patent, and petitioning him to avoid any attempts to limit the further development of Internet commerce. OReilly collected 1. Bezos responded with his own open letter. The protest ended with OReilly and Bezos visiting Washington, D. C. to lobby for patent reform. On February 2. 5, 2. Mahabharat Serial All Songs here. Method and system for conducting a discussion relating to an item on Internet discussion boards. On May 1. USPTO ordered a re examination of the One Click patent, based on a request filed by actor Peter Calveley, who cited the prior art of an earlier e commerce patent and the Digicashelectronic cash system. Canadian siteeditAmazon has a Canadian site in both English and French, but until a ruling in March 2. Canada by that countrys legal restrictions on foreign owned booksellers. Instead, Amazons Canadian site originates in the United States, and Amazon has an agreement with Canada Post to handle distribution within Canada and for the use of the Crown corporations Mississauga, Ontario shipping facility. The launch of Amazon. Canada. In 2. 00. Canadian Booksellers Association and Indigo Books and Music sought a court ruling that Amazons partnership with Canada Post represented an attempt to circumvent Canadian law,1. In January 2. 01. Indian flag on them went on sale on the Amazon Canada website. The use of the Indian flag in this way is considered offensive to the Indian community and in violation of the Flag code of India. The Minister of External Affairs of India. Sushma Swaraj threatened a visa embargo for Amazon officials if Amazon didnt tender an unconditional apology and withdraw all such products. In January 2. 01. Amazon. ca was required by the Competition Bureau to pay a 1. M penalty, plus 1. Josephine Palumbo, the deputy commissioner for deceptive marketing practices. This fine was levied because some products on Amazon. This is a frequent practice among some retailers and the fine was intended to send a clear message to the industry that unsubstantiated savings claims will not be tolerated. The Bureau also indicated that the company has made changes to ensure that regular prices are more accurately listed. Book. SurgeeditIn March 2. Amazons Book. Surge division started contacting publishers of print on demand titles to inform them that for Amazon to continue selling their POD produced books, they were required to sign agreements with Amazons own Book. Surge POD company. Publishers were told that eventually, the only POD titles that Amazon would be selling would be those printed by their own company, Book. Surge. Some publishers felt that this ultimatum amounted to monopoly abuse, and questioned the ethics of the move and its legality under anti trust law. Direct sellingeditIn 2. Amazon UK came under criticism for attempting to prevent publishers from direct selling at discount from their own websites. Amazons argument was that they should be able to pay the publishers based on the lower prices offered on their websites, rather than on the full recommended retail price RRP. Also in 2. 00. 8, Amazon UK drew criticism in the British publishing community following their withdrawal from sale of key titles published by Hachette Livre UK. The withdrawal was possibly intended to put pressure on Hachette to provide levels of discount described by the trade as unreasonable. Curtis Browns managing director Jonathan Lloyd opined that publishers, authors and agents are 1. Hachette. Someone has to draw a line in the sand. Publishers have given 1 a year away to retailers, so where does it stop Using authors as a financial football is disgraceful. In August 2. 01. 3, Amazon agreed to end its price parity policy for marketplace sellers in the European Union, in response to investigations by the UK Office of Fair Trade and Germanys Federal Cartel Office. It is not yet clear if this ruling applies to direct selling by publishers. Descargar Libro La Edad De Oro Jose Marti Park. In Japan, Amazons business activities are conducted by several subsidiary companies. The items sold by Amazon are formally sold by Amazon. Intl Sales, Inc., a company registered in the State of Washington, USA. Because of this, Amazon tried to avoid paying corporate tax ,hjinzei, but in July 2. Tokyo National Tax Agency ,Tky Kokuzeikyoku ruled that Amazon still had to pay 1. Removal of competitors productseditOn October 1, 2. Amazon announced that Google. Chromecast and Apple TV products were banned from sale on Amazon. October 2. 9, 2. 01. Amazon argued that this was to prevent customer confusion, as these devices do not interact well with the Amazon Video ecosystem. This move was criticized, as commentators believed that it was meant primarily to suppress the sale of products deemed as competition to Amazon Fire TV products, given that Amazon itself had deliberately refused to offer software for its own streaming services on these devices, and the action contradicted the implication that Amazon. In May 2. 01. 7, it was reported that Apple and Amazon were nearing an agreement to offer Amazon Video on Apple TV, and allow the product to return to the retailer. Differential pricingeditIn September 2. RobinsonPatman Act was found on amazon. Amazon offered to sell a buyer a DVD for one price, but after the buyer deleted cookies that identified him as a regular Amazon customer, he was offered the same DVD for a substantially lower price. Jeff Bezos subsequently apologized for the differential pricing and vowed that Amazon never will test prices based on customer demographics. The company said the difference was the result of a random price test and offered to refund customers who paid the higher prices. Amazon had also experimented with random price tests in 2. Amazon was randomly offering the Diamond Rio MP3 player for substantially less than its regular price. Collection of sales taxeditAmazon has been criticized for its refusal to collect sales taxes from customers in states in which it does not have a physical presence, thus giving it a comparative advantage over brick and mortar retailers. Hypothetically, some such customers should pay the equivalent amount in use tax directly to their state however, few customers do so. Tax avoidance in the UKeditIt was reported in The Guardian, April 4, 2. Amazon generated more than 3. UK but paid no corporation tax at all on the profits, and that it was under investigation by the UK tax authorities.