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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I was looking for a news story and discussion about it, not a government announcement. Also, and more importantly, I was looking for a mainstream discussion of the apparent fact that publishers have kept the 20% VAT saving and not passed it on to consumers.
It appears to be a clear case of cartels, abuse of the VAT saving, and to add to that, a conspiracy of silence among the mainstream press. I haven't surveyed price changes of UK e-books since the VAT removal, so I'm not sure it's really happening.
Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about UK ebook pricing could comment?
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If you go to eBooks.com and set it for the UK, you will find that some eBooks there do have the VAT savings. Not all, but some. I would have thought that there would have been more of an outcry. It's like hardly anybody noticed.