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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
There are samples for ebooks. If you don't like the sample or if not enough is provided to make judgement, don't buy the book.
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And yet. If I were an author, I’d much rather someone bought a book to try it if they couldn’t be sure, especially if I were confident of my product. And even if I weren’t (taste is individual), what would I have to lose? The worst case scenario is that someone ended up not liking the book and bothered to return it, and I’ve lost nothing at all compared to the potential sale lost because someone couldn’t tell in advance. (And some of those sales will convert, too, because people forget or can’t be bothered even if they ended up not liking it. There’s also that ground between egregiously bad where the motivation to return is high, and garden-variety bad where you move on.)
The part about how more sales are made with a generous return policy is inconvenient to your high moral stance, so you continue to ignore it.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
And again: buying a book should not be a guarantee that you will enjoy the book. You pays your money, you takes your chances. Caveat emptor. This used to be as American as apple pie.
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First commandment in the Church of Zod. How many converts have you picked up? Here’s another aphorism: “you do you”.