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No, it is my understanding that Amazon does not have offices in California. They have companies they work with that are based in California (i.e. the manufacturer of the Kindle) but no offices themselves.
If you go on Amazon right now, you STILL don't have to pay sales tax in California.
The California law seeks to (unconstitutionally) circumvent a 1992 US Supreme Court ruling on this issue. What Amazon has done is say, if you're going to try and enforce this, then we have the right to circumvent the unconstitutional law.
I think it's a business move and an effort to protest a misguided law. The publicity is secondary.
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And they say back then our universe
Was a coal black egg
Until the god inside
Burst out and from its shattered shell
He made what became the world we know
~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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