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Originally Posted by sassanik
30 books seems high to me. Even Bricks and Motar bookstores very rarely accept book returns. The main reason being printing problems and missing pages.
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I have bought more than 350 ebooks since I received my Sony 505 as a Christmas gift soon-to-be 3 Christmases ago and have not returned any of them. But then I am more tolerant of quality lapses in ebooks than I am in pbooks.
I am more tolerant because the price is significantly lower and because I consider ebooks as read-once toss-away books (and that's because I buy only fiction ebooks). If the story is good, I can struggle through less-than-stellar formatting or editing. If the story isn't good, well, no one told me to buy the darn thing so I just count it a loss and am sure never to buy from that author again. Of course, it helps that I won't spend more than $6 on an ebook and on average I spend less than $3.
As for bookstores taking returns, B&N's policy is 14 days with receipt for refund; without a receipt, you get store credit. Occasionally I have bought the wrong book for my wife at B&N and have taken it back and gotten a refund without a problem.