[DuckieTigger]

Thank you Blue Tyson.
That explains things a little bit better. Still does not explain why the profit margin for an ebook has to be so low for publisher and so high for Amazon. I can see how it would hurt to have the ebook at only a 1/3 price of a pbook - and possibly stop all pbook sales on amazon and local stores with really bad out come for the local bookstore (as in out of business bad). Even though I still believe the ebook should be available for the same price world wide. And to support local economy, it should have regular sales tax applied everywhere making the prices after tax still slightly different throughout the world (for the end customer). But Amazon not having all the overhang of extra expenses for airplane and such makes a killing at 65% at virtually no cost. If it is easy money for Amazon, it should be easy money for the publisher. This should make the checkbook of the author happy - and the author that people in AU want to read is the reason for Amazon to make easy money in the first place (even if they don't jack up their share for ebooks to 65%) just simply from the overpriced ebook prices.

Unless: people in Australia actually want cheap ebooks and therefore actively kill local pbook stores even more than simply having Amazon with aggressive prices?