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> seem to only be available on US stores

Surely the many "free trade" agreements Australia has entered mean you can use US stores as much as you please? ;)

Not in publishing publishers have different contracts in North America and the Commonwealth and won't seel under one contract in the other region. Publishers have forced Amazon et al to enforce this.

I actually tried, but it didn't work. Barnes&Noble just wouldn't let me place an order (but still let me create an account on the US store, weirdly).

It is not the author who decised on DRM or not - it is the publisher. E<G all TOR or Baen books are DRM free.

Unfortunnately in the paper world there are separate North American and CommonWealth contracts. Many publishers do only one thus many books have different publishers in the two regions.

These two contracts could have one with DRM and one without.

For what it's worth Canadian Amazon also has them DRM free