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Generally here (Ireland) the kindle titles are cheaper than paperbacks, except paperbacks bought in the supermarket.
But I've noticed that Amazon UK and DE have now got more expensive for some recent paperback titles than our local physical bookshop (an independent with one shop!). Monopoly? Amazon has bought up Abe, Book Depository and others.
Also now with Brexit it's cheaper to buy from Amazon DE + shipping (maybe €5) than Amazon UK with "free" shipping.
I have two Kindle accounts, one is on UK and the other is on USA. You can transfer an Irish Address Kindle account to USA for Kindle, but then can't buy UK only titles. Also ALL your kindles are "moved". Hence having two accounts. I buy USA Amazon gift cards using my UK account (which works for everything EXCEPT ebooks on DE) and email to the USA Account for the USA Kindle.
Some Kindle ebooks are a lot more expensive than paperback and some are a lot cheaper.
I've also recently found that BluRay is no longer automatically dearer than DVD, sometimes a lot cheaper, but I now only buy Amazon DVD/BluRay from DE because of UK-Ireland Customs. Many titles are just different language covers on DE vs UK-IRL version. It's the same region for BD. I don't care about DVD region, except I try to avoid NTSC format DVDs as they are 480 lines vs 576 for PAL regions. Some USA titles are even stupidly 3:2 pull down instead of progressive on the disc which creates comb artefacts with pans or horizontal movement. PAL DVDs NEVER have transfer artefacts.
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