Most of the costs remain though. Printing and distribution only account for something like 12% of a book's cost. The rest goes into author payments, marketing, editing, reviews, formatting and layout (for each format that you plan to distribute e.g. hardcover, trade and paperback), artwork for covers, etc.
This needs to be upvoted as it is true. One of the main causes of eBooks being expensive in the UK is the fact that you have to pay 20% VAT on them while you don't on books. That means that if an eBook is the same price as a paperback, then the vendor makes _more_ money by selling the paperback because they don't have to give up 20% of their headline price.
Yes... But firstly, they're not considered to be a tabloid, and secondly, the idiot I was replying to was boldly asserting that no other tabloid papers had been implicated.
Really ? You're going to blame the Tories for this !?
Remind me who was in power when we first started to hear about the hacking scandal. Remind me what they did about it. Remind me what the outcome of the first two investigations, er, I mean whitewashes was.
Oh yeah, the answer to all of the above is 'Labour'. Now, remind me of a scene with the Labour MPs booing and hissing in parliament over this EXACT SAME THING when they were in power. Oh, that's right - there isn't one. They only started to get a bit frothy about it _after_ they'd been voted out and it came to light that some of their members were targeted.
This isn't a partisan issue, so please don't try and make it one.
I don't think you understand what a 'caution' is here.
A caution is a criminal conviction that is issued by the police with no judicial oversight. The recipient has to accept it (if they're uninformed enough to) and it then has the same weight as a criminal conviction and appears on your record for at least 5 years.
That's partly because the price you see in the UK is the price you pay (including all taxes). Most prices that Americans talk about still need to have another 8% added to them because they still add sales tax at the till.
I think PAYE was designed for the one man, one job environment, and yeah, if you're working multiple jobs you really should do a self assessment because you're likely to get money back.
P45s can be a problem, but if you've kept your payslips, you can easily fill out a p46 which gives the same information and gets you on the right tax code with your new employer. Worst case scenario, you do a self assessment that year to balance everything out.
It's all a damn sight easier than I understand taxes to be from American friends. The state which you live in can tax you differently than the state you work in (e.g. living in NJ or CT and working in NY), you're supposed to pay tax on things you buy instead of the retailer handling VAT... it's all quite complex there compared to here.
Very very clear explanation of UK employee taxes there. The only for that you left out for a full year worked is the P60 that your employer should give you. This is a summary of all of your payslips received throughout the year basically.
Which reminds me... I've not had my P11D or my P60 yet. Time to go chase someone.
That's not less expensive at all than GMAIL - for starters, you need servers, bandwidth and transit from multiple suppliers just for mail. Now sure, you might be able to get some other use out of that, but that makes it not a like-for-like comparison anymore, is it?
So we all know why patents are issued - so that instead of keeping knowledge to themselves, companies publish the what, the why and the how of it. This enables someone else to come along and implement this from scratch in the future. That's the whole point of them - you get a limited monopoly in return for making your inventions public.
So why is it that technically literate people can't actually clearly understand what is meant in these patents ? Why are they allowed to be so obfuscated ?
Only because you work in a country founded on slave labour. Where I work, if I screw up, people will try and help me work out what went wrong and not do it again. If they try to fire me for a mistake, I'll get a nice settlement out of the deal. It's called employee protections.
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Really ?
You're not still going on about that silly "By the people, for the people" foolishness are you ? :p
Most of the costs remain though. Printing and distribution only account for something like 12% of a book's cost. The rest goes into author payments, marketing, editing, reviews, formatting and layout (for each format that you plan to distribute e.g. hardcover, trade and paperback), artwork for covers, etc.
None of those costs disappear.
This needs to be upvoted as it is true. One of the main causes of eBooks being expensive in the UK is the fact that you have to pay 20% VAT on them while you don't on books. That means that if an eBook is the same price as a paperback, then the vendor makes _more_ money by selling the paperback because they don't have to give up 20% of their headline price.
Somalia doesn't - off you go, I'm sure you'll love it there!
All of what nonsense? The frequent hijackings we've been having ?
Yes... But firstly, they're not considered to be a tabloid, and secondly, the idiot I was replying to was boldly asserting that no other tabloid papers had been implicated.
Really ? You're going to blame the Tories for this !?
Remind me who was in power when we first started to hear about the hacking scandal. Remind me what they did about it. Remind me what the outcome of the first two investigations, er, I mean whitewashes was.
Oh yeah, the answer to all of the above is 'Labour'. Now, remind me of a scene with the Labour MPs booing and hissing in parliament over this EXACT SAME THING when they were in power. Oh, that's right - there isn't one. They only started to get a bit frothy about it _after_ they'd been voted out and it came to light that some of their members were targeted.
This isn't a partisan issue, so please don't try and make it one.
Before this story was posted it was already revealed that at least one other paper (The Times - not really a tabloid) has been caught in this.
So it has been brought to light.
You're probably thinking of the doctrine of laches. I've never heard of it being successfully used though.
Only in America really. In most of the rest of the western world, employees are often treated as humans.
I don't think you understand what a 'caution' is here.
A caution is a criminal conviction that is issued by the police with no judicial oversight. The recipient has to accept it (if they're uninformed enough to) and it then has the same weight as a criminal conviction and appears on your record for at least 5 years.
That's partly because the price you see in the UK is the price you pay (including all taxes). Most prices that Americans talk about still need to have another 8% added to them because they still add sales tax at the till.
The rest is just greed.
Oh, so you're on BE now then ? :p
The Kindle (and associated eInk devices) are absolutely nothing like reading on a backlit screen. Try one.
I was _very_ against the idea of an eReader until I got my PRS-505 a few years back. Since then, I've read hundreds of books on it all over the world.
I think PAYE was designed for the one man, one job environment, and yeah, if you're working multiple jobs you really should do a self assessment because you're likely to get money back.
P45s can be a problem, but if you've kept your payslips, you can easily fill out a p46 which gives the same information and gets you on the right tax code with your new employer. Worst case scenario, you do a self assessment that year to balance everything out.
It's all a damn sight easier than I understand taxes to be from American friends. The state which you live in can tax you differently than the state you work in (e.g. living in NJ or CT and working in NY), you're supposed to pay tax on things you buy instead of the retailer handling VAT... it's all quite complex there compared to here.
Very very clear explanation of UK employee taxes there. The only for that you left out for a full year worked is the P60 that your employer should give you. This is a summary of all of your payslips received throughout the year basically.
Which reminds me... I've not had my P11D or my P60 yet. Time to go chase someone.
Hmmm, so they'll use the tools of a well known tax avoider to go after other people avoiding their fair share of taxes. Nice...
That's not less expensive at all than GMAIL - for starters, you need servers, bandwidth and transit from multiple suppliers just for mail. Now sure, you might be able to get some other use out of that, but that makes it not a like-for-like comparison anymore, is it?
Tax.
The US prices will exclude tax. Anyone buying in their own state will most likely have to pay an additional amount over and above the listed price.
The prices for Europe will include VAT which is between 15% and 20% depending on where you are. So it's not quite a fair comparison.
Already been done. See Metrophage by Richard Kadrey.
So we all know why patents are issued - so that instead of keeping knowledge to themselves, companies publish the what, the why and the how of it. This enables someone else to come along and implement this from scratch in the future. That's the whole point of them - you get a limited monopoly in return for making your inventions public.
So why is it that technically literate people can't actually clearly understand what is meant in these patents ? Why are they allowed to be so obfuscated ?
Only because you work in a country founded on slave labour. Where I work, if I screw up, people will try and help me work out what went wrong and not do it again. If they try to fire me for a mistake, I'll get a nice settlement out of the deal. It's called employee protections.
Really? Who provides a better mail solution to small businesses for the same amount of money with the same SPAM protection and uptime ?
How is it on point? Apple are an American company. Omega is not.
And me without mod points... bah!