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Originally Posted by haertig
If you don't like the author's writing style or the story was no good, or there are too many spelling and punctuation errors, or you don't like books with extra blank lines between paragraphs in their formatting - that just kind of comes with the territory of buying literature. I don't see it as a reason for return.
There are probably a few rare cases where an ebook return is truly justified. I'll bet those are few and far between (ignoring 1-click errors for the moment). And those few returns could be handled on an individual basis.
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Writing style or lousy story? I write it off to experience and will probably never purchase another ebook by that author.
Formatting? In case of formatting issues, I correct them if the time needed is small enough. Sigil and calibre's editor make it relatively easy these days.
Too many punctuation and spelling errors? Those deserve a return and hopefully, a quality notice. This is not all that common these days for the books I am reading since the authors of 99% of the indie books I've purchased recently are either using professional editors to help produce a higher quality ebook, have realized that that using spell and grammar checking is not a bad idea and/or are using a beta readers group.
So far I've only had one issue with returning an ebook to Amazon and after responding with a list of the egregious errors in the first 5 chapters, that issue went away.