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Print Should Amazon, which accounts for roughly half of all online sales, be legally and financially responsible for the safety of products sold on the site, including those offered by third parties? Amazon says no. A trio of state Court of Appeal justices in Los Angeles this week said otherwise. “We are persuaded that Amazon’s own business practices make it a direct link in the vertical chain of distribution under California’s strict liability doctrine,” the justices ruled, rejecting Amazon’s claim that its site is merely a platform connecting buyers and sellers. Advertisement Bot...

(AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File) (CN) — As the world’s largest commercial “river,” Amazon.com can be sued when customers sustain injuries from defective products sold by third parties on its website, a state appellate panel has ruled. “The Amazon is the world’s largest river. Amazon.com supposedly chose its trademark because it aimed to create the world’s largest river of commerce. Amazon.com can control what it created,” Justice John Shepard Wiley Jr. wrote in a concurring opinion from the Second Appellate District panel Monday. “Once Amazon is convinced it will be holding ...

Books go out of print all the time, and other facts, from an editor who covers the books world.

Twitter Facebook Last week, my children’s preschool declared it “Dr. Seuss Week” in celebration of the author’s birthday. The next day, the estate of Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss—author of 60 books, with 700 million copies sold around the world—announced that six of his books would be removed from future publication because “they portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” I wasn’t surprised by this news, and honestly, I was a bit relieved.  A few months ago, my family received a hand-me-down copy of And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street as part...

TORONTO - A shortage of video game consoles during the COVID-19 pandemic has been highly lucrative f...