Reading e-books from Italy

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On an entirely different subject, does anyone know the deal for downloading books from other countries? You would think that even if a book is available only in Italian, in Italy, that you could purchase it in Euros from the Italian Amazon site to read on your Kindle. This appears to not be true, and you cannot purchase it if your IP address is in North America. Does this make sense to you? Is there some legal workaround here so that people can - you know - legally purchase e-books they want to purchase?