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As a published author (commercially, not indy or self, and of non-fiction) I never felt for a second that my readers owed me anything at all other than the purchase price.
As a reader...
When I buy a book, I expect it to entertain me to my money's worth, that is all.
That doesn't mean I'm not entertained by really bad books--they can be entertaining for their sheer badness at times, like bad movies. Who can resist movie turkeys like Plan 9 from Outer Space, or Santa Claus Meets the Martians? These days Michael Arlen's The Green Hat, from the 1920s, is all but unreadable, but approached from the right angle (hoots of disbelief, outright laughter at the prose) I figured it was worth my money.
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