What are UK citizens selling iBooks doing about obtaining US tax ids? (ITIN vs EIN / do you then need to send annual tax returns?)

I'm attached these questions earlier to another thread, but think they may be located more easily if I start yet another one about this issue... PLEASE CAN I ASK EXACTLY WHAT ARE OTHERS FROM THE UK DOING?
I'm from the UK, and am trying to wade through the messy US tax ID conundrum in order to try to sell iBooks...
After making a 50 min call to the US yesterday, I remain completely confused!
Apple send you to the EIN part of the US tax website, for businesses, but a lady has just gone to great lengths to explain to me why this is not for individuals, and that everyone with one must send in an annual tax return (can I ask if those of you from the UK with an EIN do this, and if not why you think we don't have to? If you do, what does it entail? She sounded like they'd be chasing these up...)
So I'm told I instead need an individual ITIN. The main differences being that instead of getting one over the phone in 10 mins, you apply by post, it takes 6-10 weeks to get one, and you need to provide the following:
1. A signed letter on official Apple letter headed paper (preferably hand signed by someone from Apple?) saying why you need an ITIN. (Is there a template for this somewhere, does anyone know, as this lady implied that there must be?)
2. Either your original passport (I'm not keen on posting that to the US!), or a copy signed and verified by someone at the London US Embassy (we live nowhere near London!)
So in short, to other UK citizens out there, HELP, what have you found to be the simplest solution to all this. (And if you have gone the EIN route, which boxes do you recommend ticking on the application form, and does this mean I would need to somehow officially register as a company in the UK?)

UK residents DO NOT need an EIN - confirmed by the Apple Legal team. See below. Hope this helps everyone! All i needed was my IBAN...
Dear Team,
I'm not sure how, but when setting up my tax details on iTunes Connect i was faced with a page on which to enter my UK tax details. At the time i did not have an EIN, but now that i do i can't enter it. Please can this be entered onto my account for me?
Liz
Hi,
You do not need an EIN. Your contract is in effect, and you are ready to upload and sell books.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Best regards,
The iTunes Store Legal Team
1 Infinite Loop, MS: 36-4ISM/ Cupertino, CA 95014, USA
[email protected] / Fax: 408-974-9105
Thank you. I uploaded my first book three weeks ago and it still isn't in the stores. There is lots of confusing info on your discussion sites and even the itunes connect page says everyone must have an EIN for a paid books account. I wondered whether my first book is taking so long to publish because I had filled something in wrong? 
Thank you
Liz
Hi,
Nothing is wrong, we just changed our policy!  So when you are an individual, NOT in the United States, you do not need an EIN.
If you want to check up on the status of your book approval process, please email [email protected]
Please let me know if you have any further contract questions.
Best regards,
The iTunes Store Legal Team
1 Infinite Loop, MS: 36-4ISM/ Cupertino, CA 95014, USA

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