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Old 05-15-2016, 03:31 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
With VAT that £6.99 would be around £8.39 though right? The £9.99 would include VAT if I'm not mistaken while the $9.99 does not include sales tax. Not exactly parity of course, but not as big of a gap in max price as it at first seems? I don't know how much, if at all currency conversion rates, local fees or any kinds of taxes besides VAT might come into play to help eat up the last £1.61 of the difference.
Yes you are right. So £9.99 inc. 20% VAT is about £8.33 excl. VAT.

But £8.33 is still more than £6.99 so the same point applies: Amazon has a lower price cap in the US than in the UK, favouring US customers over UK customers.

Edit: Here is Kobo's version of the price rules, they don't seem to have a price cap for the 70% royalty, but the price minimum could also give an incentive to price differently in different countries.

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