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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
They aren't moving. They are adding a second headquarters.
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I can’t recall a situation where a major corporation had two “equal” headquarters. This was often a promise in the bank mega-mergers of the 1990s — but one city always became the real HQ. . . . .
Things could get dicey in a serious recession or other downshift where Amazon must make choices, including which location becomes the real headquarters amid a severe restructuring and downsizing.
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Recommendation for Toronto: In return for the inevitable tax incentives you guys offer, require Amazon to allow US-style Kindle Overdrive library lending. To Bezos, any associated costs would amount to a rounding error and thus are highly unlikely to be a deal-breaker. If the man wants to get out of the US, nothing to do with books is going to stop him.