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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
This confused me at first when I switched to Kobo from Kindle. The price difference seemed HUGE, then I realised that Amazon was showing me books available to NZ but listed in $US, while Kobo was showing me $NZ prices. 75-80% of the books are within $1US of each other, it turns out. But availability is a different kettle of fish, as issy's comment reminded me. It's disappointing because when logged into "amazon.com", as opposed to say "amazon.com.au", I would have expected to see US availability.
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Yes, I was caught by exactly the same thing - it appears to be a $US price, but isn't what people in the US see. Very strange.
As for the price differences: it's very hard to understand how they can be that way, but I suppose it's the agreements the various publishers have in each country.