Throughout 2026, the EU (and also individual countries within the bloc) have been changing their customs fees for imports originating outwith the EU. This has led to difficulties with making sure everything pays the correct fees for postage and import, taking up time and effort that could be spent actually posting people’s orders to them!

However, some good news. As of today, we have managed to update the website to calculate these additional import charges. These additional fees should calculate automatically when you reach checkout. It is slightly different for every EU country, because every EU country has a different VAT rate for books. These charges will also be printed line by line in the PDF invoice you can download for your order.

This means we should always be able to send books DDP (delivery duty paid), so that you never have to deal with customs when your book arrives in your country. The package should go through customs quickly and easily, and should be delivered directly to you without any paperwork or hassle required.

Hopefully, this will all work without any problems. However, if you do notice a problem while trying to purchase a book from us, please contact us and let us know. We want to know about problems so that we can try to fix them!

And remember, if a shipping fee still doesn’t look right (sometimes the case after buying 3+ different books), you are always welcome to choose “request a quote” as your payment method, and we can edit things manually to make sure it is as correct as possible.

For a number of years, since our first two books came out, we have been able to sell PDF copies of the AHA German Longsword Study Guide and Scottish Broadsword and British Singlestick in a non-automated, somewhat limited fashion. Then, for a few years, there was no longer any real demand or interest in these; but recently, we have received a number of requests for them again.