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Originally Posted by gmw
One thing of particular interesting to me, being in Australia, is how these distribution companies deal with tax for international publishers. Both Amazon and Smashwords find it necessary to have you submit a U.S. tax file number, if you don't they will withhold tax. For some reason BookBaby did not find it necessary to do this. (My guess - and it is only a guess - is that Amazon and Smashwords both work as if they're publishers* (even though they're not), while BookBaby work purely a distributor.)
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I am certain this has absolutely nothing to do with "publishers" or publishing at all and has everything to do with the the tax and accounting policies of the various businesses and their locations.
Perhaps a tax lawyer or accountant can comment.