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Amazon also adds about $1-$2 to pay for WhisperSync for each Kindle eBook sale outside the limited countries where it's free. So books that cost $9.99 in the US cost $11.99 or so when bought from the Africa-specific Kindle store on Amazon.com.

I don't think that applies in this case, which seems to be as a result of either Canadian Value Added Tax and/or the agency model, but it's why prices in other countries might seem to differ from the price you see when you're just browsing Amazon.com.