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I have a hard time seeing how this is connected to the sales tax issue at all - and the only person quoted in the article, from the "Campus Computing Project" - does not seem to be anyone with any actual expertise in the matter.
If I rent a car in one state and drive it to another state, I don't have have to pay taxes on it in the other state.
If I rent a TV in one state and take it to another state, I don't have to pay sales tax on it in the other state.
So I can't see why it would be any different for textbooks, nor can I see why Amazon, even if they were responsible for collecting taxes, as they are in some states, would be responsible for collecting taxes in states where the transaction did not occur simply because the renter took the rented item across state lines.
But I'm not sure what the purpose of the rule would be, although I suspect that it comes from the publishers and not from Amazon directly, since I don't think that Amazon has any interest in making things difficult for their customers.
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