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Another Kindle release that I can't have. All these cool products that aren't available where I live.

Seriously though, does anyone know whats stopping Amazon from making their offerings available in more countries?

They probably have stupid regional licensing agreements with publishers. I guess that without the books to release for the Kindle, Amazon doesn't think releasing the Kindles to be worth it in these countries. I don't know, that's just my guess.

Here in Turkey, there are folks buying from US and selling with a small premium ($50ish), worked well for my son's Paperwhite 2 (with ads). You can tell Amazon that you don't live in US and they disable ads instantly [1]. Sometimes, you need to change your country in the Amazon profile to buy a book from US store and back, but I can live with that.

{1] http://www.labnol.org/software/remove-kindle-ads/28341/

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