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Originally Posted by scveteran
Since Amazon is the company being discussed, other companies not providing a sample doesn't seem relevant to this discussion IMO. I will agree that they should tell you up front which format the ebook is in. However, since the Kindle can read it regardless of the format and you are purchasing it to use on the Kindle I don't see a problem with it. I realize that I am in the minority here, but I have no problem DRM.
While your listed reasons for being able to return ebooks may seem reasonable to some people here, I don't think that that they are.
You start off with bad formatting and include things that basically would allow every single book to be returned after reading. There is no way that a company can survive doing that. I challenge you to find a decent length book that doesn't have some sort of missing punctuation at some point. Then you can decide that you don't like the font???
I would agree that if the file is corrupt you should at the company's discretion either receive a refund or a new copy. Of course that assumes that the file was always corrupt. If it gets corrupted at a later point, then it is the same as if you had misplaced a regular pbook.
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Although I entirely agree with your points, it's perhaps worth pointing out that when Elfwreck refers to "missing punctuation", he was perhaps referring back to the case I mentioned earlier in the thread - a Vince Flynn novel I bought for my Kindle which was missing
all of its quotation marks and dashes; clearly a production fault. It would be reasonable to return a book for that, although I chose not to do so, since it was a jolly good story, and the missing punctuation didn't make it unreadable.