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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Amazon UK and the publishers should also get sued. In the UK, the government did away with VAT for eBooks and the prices didn't change. They should have gone down. But the greedy Amazon/publishers kept the prices the same.
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We've been through this several times. You do not understand how UK VAT works, it is not like US sales tax, it is not added at checkout by the retailer.
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did reduce prices for books where they set the price.
Amazon
could not change the prices for Agency eBooks to take account of the VAT change, only the publishers could.
There is nothing illegal about the publishers choosing to reduce their prices or not.
From Amazon's announcement at the time:
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“For titles where Amazon sets the price, we will reduce the prices of books not already on promotion,”
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Exactly the same thing happened at Kobo, but of course you ignore that to attack Amazon.