{"id":19318,"date":"2018-10-04T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=19318"},"modified":"2018-10-04T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:11:09","slug":"eu-lowers-vat-on-ebooks-to-match-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=19318","title":{"rendered":"EU Lowers VAT on eBooks to Match Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1411845\/eu-lowers-vat-for-ebooks-to-match-print-books\/\"><strong>Quartz<\/strong><\/a> reports that the <strong>European Union<\/strong> is <strong>lowering<\/strong> the <strong>value-added-tax (VAT) on eBooks<\/strong> to <strong>match &#8220;books&#8221;<\/strong> in a move that <strong>equates<\/strong> and harmonizes digital titles with their paperback and hard cover versions.<\/p>\n<p>A little validation that is bound to help <strong>eBook sales<\/strong> in the <strong>EU<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quartz reports that the European Union is lowering the value-added-tax (VAT) on eBooks to match &#8220;books&#8221; in a move that equates and harmonizes digital titles with their paperback and hard cover versions. A little validation that is bound to help eBook sales in the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,11,4,5,8,6,25,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19321,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions\/19321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}