Re: [PHP4BETA] Professional PHP by Schumann

Mendel Mobach wrote: > > At amazon.COM it still (or again) seems to be available. > > At amazon.DE they say that it's not yet published. > > Furthermore the US amazon price is $10 cheaper. > ^^^ > > Very strange! > > > No, it isn't strange > if you buy your book in germany you has to pay some > V.A.T. ('mehrwardstuer'). If you buy this in the US > you hasn't. Only if you resale it you has to do it too. > I don't know exactly the percentage, but in the netherlands > it's 6% for books. It's 7 % Mehrwertsteuer and Amazon.de and all people who are selling books are not allowed to make the price cheaper. In Germany we have a Buchpreisbindung, this means the book price is fixed. -Egon -- Six Offene Systeme GmbH · Sielminger Straße 63 · D-70771 L.-Echterdingen Fon +49 711 9 90 91 64 · http://www.six.de/ Fax +49 711 9 90 91 99 · mailto:egon@six.de