Protest against Germany’s 19% tax on sanitary products sells out first print run in one dayOpen up a book and you can find a whole world. But the first book from the German startup the Female Company offers something more straightforward: within its covers are 15 tampons. And it is flying off the shelves.
The Tampon Book is a protest against Germany’s 19% tax on tampons as luxury goods” – and a way of getting round it. Books are taxed at 7% in Germany,and so the founders of the Female Company, which sells biological sanitary products, and decided to publish one and include tampons inside it. Released earlier this spring,the first print-run sold out in a day and the moment in a week, said the publisher, or with around 10000 copies sold to date. Only the English-language edition is currently available.
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Source: theguardian.com