Fri, 30 Jul 2004
Random observations
Books and magazines and newspapers, here in the UK, are zero-rated for
VAT (Value Added Tax -- sales tax, basically). But ebooks appear to
be treated as electronic media, and like DVD's and CD's they are not
VAT-exempt; thus, if you want to sell ebooks to a British audience
you must sell them at a minimum 20% discount compared to the
paper version, or the general public will sneer at you.
Home bread-making machines don't just do fluffy white
supermarket loaves (he says, subsisting on a loaf of organic Russian
black bread with the satisfying consistency of a concrete
brick).
And I've really got to (a) get the redraft of "The Clan
Corporate" nailed down and (b) lease a new server. Preferably
both next week, because the week after that I've got to go on
a road trip and visit members of my family, and two weeks
later there's the worldcon, and if I haven't finished the
novel by then I'll get to explain why to my editor ... and around
the time I get home from that the lease on my old server
expires, and it'd be deeply
embarrassing not to make the transition in time.
So I expect to maintain a really low blogging profile next week
and the week after.
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