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They could have opened up Amazon to the world.
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As I have said elsewhere, why would they want to deal with the costs and hassles of international when they are selling all they can make as it is? They are in business to make money, period. They are not in the business of making folks happy (other than their stockholders). That is the way it works in private enterprise and if it were not for said private enterprise, we would likely not have such devices at all.
And think about it, if Amazon started selling internationally today, their present 2-4 week back order time would double or triple (at least) and how happy would that make folks?
I am sure we will see an international Kindle once the saturated sales in the US slow down and not a second before.
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They aren't going to keep the K1 for sale, so they limited production while producing k2s (and it backfired).
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Could be - we shall see in the next few months. I also think the Oprah thing may have come as a (pleasant) surprise to them and affected stock levels.
My guess is that they have an international version already designed. Remember that they also have to make a load of deals with many cell carriers for international - a lot more complex than just dealing with one carrier like Sprint in the US.