{"id":200,"date":"2015-01-12T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorcoach.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2015-01-12T11:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:12:26","slug":"deciphering-nook-press-vat-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authorcoach.com\/blog\/deciphering-nook-press-vat-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Deciphering Nook Press&#8217;s VAT Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a couple articles now about the changes in the VAT laws and how they may affect small, indie, and self-publishers.\u00a0 After reviewing the guidelines for Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s Nook Press, I confess I remained confused.\u00a0 Even after emailing support, I was confused.\u00a0 So I just had to see what they were doing <em>in action.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I visited Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s Nook UK site at http:\/\/www.nook.com\/gb\/ and put in one of my titles, <em>DEFCON One<\/em>, by Joe Weber.\u00a0 I found the customer-facing price was &#8220;\u00a35.40 <em>including VAT.<\/em>&#8221; The price I had set for the UK was \u00a34.50.\u00a0 The UK VAT is 20% and so the math works out.\u00a0 My price plus VAT equals the price shown to customers, including VAT.<\/p>\n<p>Phew!<\/p>\n<p>Now, unfortunately, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a Nook site outside of the US and UK that I can access.\u00a0 Presumably they ask publishers to enter pricing in Euros for customers who are using a Nook in Europe but still buying from the US or UK site.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been awesome if Nook Press was more clear in their guides and even in their emails when I asked questions about the VAT changes, so that I wouldn&#8217;t once again be repricing everything there.\u00a0 If you have been waiting to see how this VAT business shakes out before repricing, you were probably smart!<\/p>\n<p>A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a couple articles now about the changes in the VAT laws and how they may affect small, indie, and self-publishers.\u00a0 After reviewing the guidelines for Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s Nook Press, I confess I remained confused.\u00a0 Even after emailing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/authorcoach.com\/blog\/deciphering-nook-press-vat-policies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,43,27,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barnes-and-noble","category-nook-press","category-self-publishing-2","category-the-business-of-publishing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deciphering Nook Press&#039;s VAT Policies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Changes in UK and VAT law require small, indie, and self-publishers to reconsider their pricing on eBooks. 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