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by taylan 5062 days ago
There is something fishy here. Neither www.corporate-ir.net nor corporate-ir.net resolve. And the site asks you to login.

Relevant link is:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/465600/
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gagan2020 5062 days ago
A whois query (http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=corporate-ir.net&#3...) reveal corporate-ir.net domain belongs to Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc.

I got this link from https://twitter.com/amazoncareers. Now, that account is authentic or not that's another question.

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saraid216 5061 days ago
FWIW, if you go to http://www.amazon.com/pr (which I think you can safely expect to be owned and operated by Amazon), you DO get redirected to corporate-ir.net. That's what ultimately convinced me that the press release was legit.

It still bothers me, though.

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greenyoda 5061 days ago
You can also find the same information about textbook rentals by going directly to Amazon's site and going to their textbooks department.
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