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New VAT rules: Exclusive Kindle titles more expensive stores close – lesen.net

02/01/2015 John Main eBook News

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Since yesterday 01/01/2015 eBooks EU-wide taxed according to the destination principle. Online retailer Amazon passes the additional expenses to publishers and authors, which has led to a significant increase in the cost of exclusive titles. But German retailers are affected.



Led Amazon now only the Luxembourg tax rate from 3 percent to eBooks from now must the German tax rate from 19 percent to be paid. Because Amazon revenue sharing pays depends on the net sale price, were particularly exclusive to Amazon-publishing indie authors as reported before deciding their books to expensive either by more than 10 per cent, or to take lower revenues in purchasing.

Yesterday, New Year Estag prices were then diligently changed – to such an extent that the Amazon KDP service temporarily fell to his knees. A look at the Kindle Top 20 shows that many indie authors their (in surveys articulated) promises could be followed by action and adapting the net extols so that the gross prices hit the next highest price threshold. From 0,89 EUR 0,99 EUR or were 1.49 euros (love, crisis, football games), from 3,99 EUR 4,49 EUR (Silent debt). Some prices are not adjusted, so as cinnamon sugar Hanna Kaiser currently costs EUR 3.45 (previously 2.99 euros).



Osiander restricts eBook sales a

With the new tax regime has become fairer, because Amazon now under the same economic conditions acts such as the Tolino Alliance of competition. At the same time the legislation was also complicated because, takes a different sales tax law application for each country that is sold.

This policy also German provider concerned. To set the Regionalfilialist Osiander the year the presently practiced selling eBooks to other EU countries completely one – he was simply “. No longer economically feasible

” big scandal, Amazon strengthens “

Other Stores made right in the thick. So stomped the highly acclaimed eBook publishing micro text its own eBook Store of the year due to the new regulation, and now linked only to other platforms. Micro text publisher Nikola Richter, awarded on the Frankurter Book Fair from Börsenverein with a Young Investigator Award, was the new legislation mince words. It is “a big scandal and has the opposite effect: weakening of the little ones, thereby indirectly strengthening of Amazon”. Another small publisher called a “corporate nightmare for any small publishing house”. Unquestionably, the fiscal adjustment is a fair competition necessary but most double-edged sword

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The article “New VAT rules: Exclusive Kindle titles include more expensive, Stores” was on January 2, 2015 (Friday ) at 14:26 clock written by John Main. John Main ( Xing / Twitter ) is editor and publisher of lesen.net

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