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Originally Posted by Hitch
I would not take the chances on Indy authors that I take now, were I not able to return wholly unsatisfactory books. Sorry, but you guys are all behaving as though every published book is some GEM. Trust me, they're not. And many of them start out okay, with promise and then die terrible horrible deaths in the saggy middle or worse. I have returned dreadful books. Does anybody here really think that the author would rather have me leave a review, explaining why the book is godawful, than simply getting back my $0.99-$2.99 or so???? I doubt that they would.
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Huh. I've never returned a book because it didn't meet my extremely high standards. Do you walk out of a theater demanding a refund if the movie you saw sucked? Did you return your copy of CCR's
Mardi Gras after realizing there were only two good songs on it? In the days of paper books, did you take your half read copy of Atlas Shrugged back to the book store for a refund when you figured out it was dreck?
I abide by the old adage: You pays your money, you takes your chances.
If you purchase a book after reading the synopsis, reading the reviews, reading the sample, you should live with it. If the book is a disaster, don't buy further books from that author. Feel free to add bad reviews. Maybe if others had done that, you wouldn't have bought the book in the first place. Help out your fellow man!