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Originally Posted by pdurrant
More importantly, from Amazon's point of view, there may be books in the US store that they're not legally allowed to sell to Australians who live in Australia, usually because the publisher of the US edition doesn't have publication rights in Australia. That's why you're being encouraged to switch to the Australian Kindle store.
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While this is correct, the reverse also holds true: there are books on Amazon.com that one can get there, but not in the local shop.
As a Dutchman, I can choose to shop at Amazon.com or Amazon.nl, but the .coms-site gives me the biggest selection of English books. If I would want to buy books in Dutch, moving to the Dutch shop would probably be best.
I do not know if it is possible (and allowed) to shop at Amazon.com if you're living in the UK, Germany or France; these countries already have very big Amazon stores. (The Dutch one only opened last year, IIRC; before it rerouted to Amazon.co.uk, and depending on the product you wanted to buy, could even be re-re-routed to Amazon.de...)
If you can find most of the things you want at Amazon.com, I'd just stay put, and get the rest elsewhere.