This may be true for audiobooks, as I've never bought one from Kobo (or Amazon), but I suspect not. Kobo customer service won't tell you that if you delete your credit card information (store credit from a refund or gift card is OK), and change your country to whatever one you want to buy from, and change the postal code to match one from that country, you can buy books as though you are in that country. After you change the country information, you can add a credit card, preferably one that doesn't charge a foreign currency transaction fee. If you can buy a gift card, Kobo handles the foreign currency conversion automatically. The ebook will show up in your library, even if you change back to your actual location.
This is all because of geographic restrictions from author/publisher book contracts, foreign rights, etc. which are holdovers from the time where all books were paper, and it cost a lot to ship paper copies across the ocean.
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