Thread: UK e-book prices to rise from 1st January 2015
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Old 01-21-2015, 03:15 PM   #320
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Originally Posted by Little.Egret View Post
They didn't have to do anything because standard VAT is the default.

Back then the BPH thought ebooks were totally unimportant and maybe multi-media was the way ahead. I got club CDs back then which didn't have a booklet or sleeve notes, it was an ebooklet on the CD. Music downloads of course paid at the same VAT rate as CDs.

That being so, different VAT rate require a test - Italy has just chosen "has it an ISBN" which is a gallant try but easily gamed when the product is "really" music or a video.
But by adding VAT, it causes eBook prices to rise and some could then be more than the paper edition. Thus lowering the value of the eBook. So I can easily see the BPHs lobbying for VAT on eBooks.
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