Thread: Amazon now has Australian Kindle store.
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Old 11-13-2013, 06:24 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by meeera View Post
The current exchange rate is 1 USD to 1.07 AUD. GST is 10%. So why the prices?<snip>

Looks like it's just another venue for the Australia Tax. The only plus I can see is that they carry a few Aussie books that haven't been released in the US yet; but they're not books you can't get anywhere else.
The books will probably be sourced from Australian publishers, who we all know set higher prices, so unless you are after Australian-only books you're almost certainly better off buying from another country if you can.

However this move will capture the far larger segment of the market who don't know about circumventing geo-restrictions and the Australia Tax.
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