Why is EIN needed to sell iBooks?
Does anyone understand why Apple demands non-US residents a EIN to sell iBooks? Does that mean I will need to pay taxes in the US for the books sold via iBooks? Many thanks!!
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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import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;
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reminderframe.show( );
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node = searchNode;
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searchNode = node.appendChild( newNode );
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import org.xml.sax.*;
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month=input.nextInt();
year=input.nextInt();
public boolean ReadEntry(Node node)
node = getYear(node);
if(node==null) return false;
node = getMonth(node);
if(node==null) return false;
node = getDay(node);
if(node==null) return false;
node = node.getFirstChild();
while(node!=null)
System.out.println(node.getNodeValue().trim());
node=node.getNextSibling();
return true;
public boolean CreateEntry(Node node)
Node searchNode;
searchNode = getYear(node);
if(searchNode==null)
Element newNode = doc.createElement("Year");
searchNode = node.appendChild(newNode);
newNode.setAttribute("Id",Integer.toString(year));
node = searchNode;
searchNode = getMonth(node);
if(searchNode==null)
Element newNode = doc.createElement("Month");
searchNode = node.appendChild(newNode);
newNode.setAttribute("Id",Integer.toString(month));
node = searchNode;
searchNode = getDay(node);
if(searchNode==null)
Element newNode = doc.createElement("Day");
searchNode = node.appendChild(newNode);
newNode.setAttribute("Id",Integer.toString(day));
node = searchNode;
System.out.println("Enter Text");
String entry=input.next();
entry+=input.nextLine();
Node textNode = doc.createTextNode(entry);
node.appendChild(textNode);
return true;
public void ShowDiary(Node node)
Stack<Node> stack=new Stack<Node>();
Node child;
stack.push(node);
while(!stack.empty())
node = stack.pop();
if(ProcessNode(node))
child = node.getLastChild();
while(child!=null)
stack.push(child);
child = child.getPreviousSibling();
private boolean ProcessNode(Node node)
if(node.getNodeName().equals("Year"))
currentYear=node.getAttributes().item(0).getNodeValue();
if(node.getNodeName().equals("Month"))
currentMonth=node.getAttributes().item(0).getNodeValue();
if(node.getNodeName().equals("Day"))
System.out.print(node.getAttributes().item(0).getNodeValue()+"/"+
currentMonth+"/"+currentYear+": ");
node=node.getFirstChild();
while(node!=null)
System.out.println(node.getNodeValue().trim());
node=node.getNextSibling();
return false;
return true;
private Node getYear(Node node)
node=node.getFirstChild();
while(node!=null)
if(node.getNodeName().equals("Year")
&& Integer.valueOf(node.getAttributes().item(0).getNodeValue())==year)
return node;
node = node.getNextSibling();
return null;
private Node getMonth(Node node)
node=node.getFirstChild();
while(node!=null)
if(node.getNodeName().equals("Month")
&& Integer.valueOf(node.getAttributes().item(0).getNodeValue())==month)
return node;
node = node.getNextSibling();
return null;
private Node getDay(Node node)
node=node.getFirstChild();
while(node!=null)
if(node.getNodeName().equals("Day")
&& Integer.valueOf(node.getAttributes().item(0).getNodeValue())==day)
return node;
node = node.getNextSibling();
return null;
private void writeXmlFile() throws Exception
Source source = new DOMSource(doc);
Result result = new StreamResult(file);
Transformer xformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
xformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT,"yes");
xformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_SYSTEM,"Diary.dtd");
xformer.transform(source, result);
}My question is, why does the exceptions in the example code not need to be caught? And why do I have to catch the exceptions in my code? Several exceptions are thrown in the example code, but there is no catch statement.
Thanks for any advice!!Since your question didn't come with any relevant details, and since you have huge steaming piles of irrelevant code, all I can give is a general answer to "Why do I need to catch this exception?"
[url http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/exceptions/index.html]Exception tutorial at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/exceptions/index.html
Here's a quick overview of exceptions:
The base class for all exceptions is Throwable. Java provides Exception and Error that extend Throwable. RuntimeException (and many others) extend Exception.
RuntimeException and its descendants, and Error and its descendants, are called unchecked exceptions. Everything else is a checked exception.
If your method, or any method it calls, can throw a checked exception, then your method must either catch that exception, or declare that your method throws that exception. This way, when I call your method, I know at compile time what can possibly go wrong and I can decide whether to handle it or just bubble it up to my caller. Catching a given exception also catches all that exception's descendants. Declaring that you throw a given exception means that you might throw that exception or any of its descendants.
Unchecked exceptions (RuntimeException, Error, and their descendants) are not subject to those restrictions. Any method can throw any unchecked exception at any time without declaring it. This is because unchecked exceptions are either the sign of a coding error (RuntimeException), which is totally preventable and should be fixed rather than handled by the code that encounters it, or a problem in the VM, which in general can not be predicted or handled.
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