I didn't realize Amazon had such a generous return policy on ebooks. It seems ridiculous.
I have returned two ebooks that I accidentally bought by clicking the 1-click button.
I'd be okay if they did away with ebook returns and turned off forced 1-click purchasing of ebooks.
From the article:
Authors are protesting Amazon's e-book policy that allows users to read and return
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Earlier this month, Lisa Kessler, a paranormal romance author, logged into Kindle Direct Publishing to check her earnings from the previous month. On her publishing dashboard, she saw something she had never seen before in her 11 years as an author: a negative earnings balance.
The reason for the negative balance? Kindle e-book returns.
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"I don't really understand why digital movies and digital music aren't returnable, but digital books you have a whole week to read that book and return," Kessler said. "That doesn't make sense to me. It's still a digital product."
Kessler, Givens Kurtz, Creel, and other authors also suggest Amazon limit returns based on how much of a book a customer has read — say, after reading 20% of a book, it can no longer be returned.
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