{"id":32356,"date":"2014-08-19T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/amazon-textbook-rentals-fine-print-bans-taking\/"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:47:09","slug":"amazon-textbook-rentals-fine-print-bans-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/amazon-textbook-rentals-fine-print-bans-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon textbook rentals: fine-print bans taking books over state lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/95166419255\/amazon-textbook-rentals-fine-print-bans-taking-books\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0If you thought Google <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/08\/17\/cross-a-border-lose-your-eboo.html\">deleting your ebooks when you cross a border<\/a> is unreasonable, check this out: Amazon\u2019s textbook rental service comes with fine-print that allows the company to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2013\/08\/16\/amazon-restricts-students-bringing-certain-textbook-rentals-across-state-lines\">bill your credit card for the full amount if they think you\u2019ve crossed a state line<\/a> with it. It\u2019s not clear exactly what\u2019s going on here, but all signs point to this being part of Amazon\u2019s strategy for avoiding having to pay state sales-tax. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/08\/19\/amazon-textbook-rentals-fine.html\"><strong>Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: \u00a0If you thought Google deleting your ebooks when you cross a border is unreasonable, check this out: Amazon\u2019s textbook rental service comes with fine-print that allows the company to bill your credit card for the full amount if they think you\u2019ve crossed a state line with it. It\u2019s not clear exactly what\u2019s going on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8pS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}