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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
As to "stealing" ebooks, one can argue that it goes both ways. A purchaser of a phone from Best Buy can return the phone, if it fails to meet their reasonable expectations. But the purchaser of an ebook does not have such option, even if they give up reading in disgust a third into the book. Did the author/publisher just "steal" the purchase money? Should we have a new law for that?
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Depends. I know when you purchase "how to" types of books online from independent authors, you often get a refund if you tell them it didn't work for you. This seems the most reasonable for information purchased to achieve a promised result.
Fiction on the other hand...that's difficult. What is the author promising in this case that he/she didn't deliver on? Maybe you can argue that promise was to leave you entertained, but it's still not as straight and clear as the non-fiction case.