As an author using Leanpub, do I need to be worried about collecting and remitting sales taxes for my book sales?

We're not tax lawyers and it's every author's responsibility to handle their own tax situation, but here's how we recommend thinking about questions along these lines:

If you were signing up for Amazon KDP, would you email Amazon to ask them questions like this?

For almost every author who emails us VAT and other tax-related questions, the answer they immediately think of, when they think of things this way, is:

"Obviously no, collecting and remitting sales taxes is Amazon's problem. Amazon just pays me royalties."

That's how you should think about Leanpub. As a (much smaller) version of Amazon, not a (much smaller) version of eBay.

We're a publisher, not a two-sided marketplace. On Leanpub, you're an author, not a merchant.

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Why do book prices have VAT added? Also, why does the price change sometimes? And why do you charge VAT, if you're not in the EU or the UK?

My accountant says that I need to collect and remit VAT on my ebook sales! Do I really need to do that?

I'm from the EU, and I know you pay and remit EU VAT. But how does this work with royalties? Do I need to send you invoices?

I'm Canadian, and my accountant is telling me to be concerned about GST. Should I be?

I used Leanpub's Publish on Amazon service to get my book on Amazon KDP. I've added new chapters since then. What does it cost for Leanpub to update the published book on Amazon?