In 1995 the parent redeemed 3.325 million of those shares for a note the subsidiary could convert into 3.51 million shares.
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Note that the subsidiary that developed the Kindle e-Reader, Lab 126, is based in Silicon Valley but Amazon did not collect sales tax in California until September 2012.
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