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Originally Posted by chrisridd
Interesting - I guess it is still early days as publishers are finding out how to best handle the change.
I haven't personally noticed any change beyond the usual random fluctuations, but I do tend to just buy from the major publishers.
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It's quite possible some will eat part or all of the cost and perhaps gradually raise the prices. Who knows? It's a headache when it comes to price matching. There were several blog posts that no one knew what B&N was doing about it, but the general consensus was they'd leave the price alone and add the VAT at checkout. Well, that makes indie books on Amazon appear to be priced higher--and Amazon will then match back down and take the difference from the author. And so on. I think Kobo add the VAT after purchase price too. Shrug. Some publishers might not have wanted it to be obvious or perhaps it is taking them time to work it in across various countries.