Amazon launched the Australian Kindle Store, Wednesday, offering over 2 million eBooks that include many English best sellers, more than 400,000 Kindle-exclusive titles, best-selling illustrated children's and young adult books, cookbooks, comics and graphic novels, and more.

The giant retailer also announced that in addition to Kindle Paperwhite, the all-new Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX tablets will now be on sale locally in Australia at Dick Smith and Big W stores. The 7" Kindle Fire HDX will be available starting November 26 at a suggested retail price of AU$329 and the 8.9" Kindle Fire HDX will be available starting December 10 at a suggested retail price of AU$479.

"Millions of Australians are already Kindle customers, and we're delighted to make it even easier for them to enjoy the Kindle experience," said Neil Lindsay, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. "The new Kindle Store is customized for Australian customers, with local best sellers and curated lists relevant to Australians, and many titles from local publishers and authors such as Tim Winton, Karly Lane and Kate Morton."

Australian customers can also enjoy over 700,000 books priced at AU$3.99 or less and over 1.4 million priced AU$9.99 or less. Amazon also announced that independent authors and publishers can now make their books available and earn a 70% royalty in the Australian Kindle Store using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).

Amazon began shipping its new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 inch tablet November 7. Customers can order the device online through Amazon's website. In light of the new device, Amazon also launched two other services for mobile application makers called The Analytics and A/B Testing. The services are designed to help developers invest time on building great apps and games, rather than setting up or cutting down on back-end infrastructure.