News Update: Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Drops Colorado Marketing Affiliates on New Sales-Tax Regs.

3/9/2010-Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) informed its marketing affiliates in Colorado that it was ending its business with them on Monday after the state enacted a law that imposes new sales-tax regulations on online retailers.

Amazon sent an email to members of its associates program, who earn a fee for providing links to the online retailer on their own Web sites, saying, "As a result of the new law we have decided to stop advertising through associates based in Colorado."

Affiliates have been part of similar sales-tax collection laws imposed by other states but aren't named as part of the Colorado law, so it wasn't immediately clear why Amazon chose to retaliate by dropping affiliates, The Wall Street Journal said.

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