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Originally Posted by DNSB
Interesting. When I was looking at foreign language ebooks, changing the country and language at the bottom of the page seemed to move books in that national language to the top of my searches. I looked at changing the country under billing address but doing that required clearing payment information which left me unenthused about trying that option.
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The country in the account settings is about what each publisher can sell in each country. Traditionally, Australia got UK based editions of books rather than the US edition. That was based on the publisher and their contracts. It is still happening here and I frequently see links in the deals forum and find the book is unavailable here, but there is a different version available. And usually more expensive. Amazon do the same, but I think they use the IP address as well to determine the location.
For checking this, I have another account that I never use to buy books. I change the country whenever I want to look for "missing" books or see the deals others are getting.