Thread: Is Amazon holding back ebooks growth around the world?
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Old 07-14-2011, 11:02 AM   #4
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VAT doesn't make sense in something that's supposed to be free. Remember it's a percentage of the item value. How do you charge 20 to 23% of $0 or 0€?

Other thing is most books that are free at US have a value of $3.44, where the hell that comes from? I'm gonna pretend I'm from US, I don't care, this doesn't make sense with a digital item. Does the other e-book retailers do the same thing? I mean the ones that sell internationally.

Well I was talking about this before reading the article. But now it seems that the 3.44 books are in fact 0.99 ones, but the stupid thing is that I have many other 0.99 books available to me, as for 1.99 or 2.99 ones too and even free ones. But randomly some supposedly free books aren't free here or the price is not the same.
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