Are all UK / EU - APOLOGETICS books, garbage???

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Dai3234

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Hello, I'm starting to think the UK/EU and USA, just don't work together on apologetics books. And UK/EU people don't really buy USA books because of the export tax on top. Are there any useful apologetics books and not just a load of waffle?
 

Desdichado

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I don't really understand what you are getting at.

Importing books isn't difficult. Do you mean collaboration?
 

Dai3234

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I don't really understand what you are getting at.

Importing books isn't difficult. Do you mean collaboration?
On USA books there's an export tax of about £50 on top of the £30-£40 book. So stores in the UK won't stock them. Not even Christian market shops. Why don't they just work together with publishing rather than export etc. They are Christians, right?
 
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On USA books there's an export tax of about £50 on top of the £30-£40 book. So stores in the UK won't stock them. Not even Christian market shops. Why don't they just work together with publishing rather than export etc. They are Christians, right?
You do realize you're asking the people who left your country and had a war to free ourselves from you specifically because we didn't like the import/export taxes your country imposed, right? lol

Don't blame publishers for taxes. Blame the government. (Oh, and I left you a link to a book available for free that you can read online. I'm impressed that his family didn't take on his copyright royalties. I would have.)
 
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Not sure why books on saying sorry are popular...

USA products are very cheap compared to the UK, but if we import, the UK charged import tax makes them so much more expensive then if we bought the same product if it were available locally. It is our UK government which taxes, not the USA government.
We get so jealous when we work out the difference between currencies and find everything in the USA to be so cheap, yet wages seem to be reasonable in relationship to costs. Though we do have benefits which one pays privately over there so swings and roundabouts!
I guess every person has a different circumstance to face and it is not as easy as one imagines it to be. Maybe everyone looks at each other and thinks the grass is greener! (Mind you, in Wales where I live, it probably is due to high rainfall!)
 
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Dai3234

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Not sure why books on saying sorry are popular...

USA products are very cheap compared to the UK, but if we import, the UK charged import tax makes them so much more expensive then if we bought the same product if it were available locally. It is our UK government which taxes, not the USA government.
We get so jealous when we work out the difference between currencies and find everything in the USA to be so cheap, yet wages seem to be reasonable in relationship to costs. Though we do have benefits which one pays privately over there so swings and roundabouts!
I guess every person has a different circumstance to face and it is not as easy as one imagines it to be. Maybe everyone looks at each other and thinks the grass is greener! (Mind you, in Wales where I live, it probably is due to high rainfall!)
As far as I know, apologetics is not saying sorry, has a different meaning. To reply, or something? Basically a rebuttal book. Or answer book, I think?
 

Dai3234

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You do realize you're asking the people who left your country and had a war to free ourselves from you specifically because we didn't like the import/export taxes your country imposed, right? lol

Don't blame publishers for taxes. Blame the government. (Oh, and I left you a link to a book available for free that you can read online. I'm impressed that his family didn't take on his copyright royalties. I would have.)
It wouldn't zoom :(
 

Desdichado

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Oh that's rough. I've imported books from your country with no issues. Cheap ones too.

Sorry about that tax situation. Gah.