>The latest education report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) raised alarm in Denmark when it found 24% of Danish 15-year-olds cannot understand a simple text, up four percentage points in a decade

For some reason. I don't think a VAT applied to books has anything to do with this nor will altering it do anything to help.

This is one of those situations where it seems like government reaches for the first tool they think of regardless if it makes any sense.