Book Geeks Probs

Amazon and Audible made it into their policy that you can return ebooks and audiobooks and get a full refund.

They actively promote this, making their book shop into a book lending service, de facto a library you subscribe to. That's their business plan to encourage subscribtions.

The dirty thing, however, is that Amazon and Audible are making the authors pay for each refunded item. They will detract money, income, royalties, from the authors' account. They're not hurting from the refund, the author is.

Look, no-one is saying you're not allowed to return an item if you've read the first 50 pages or listened to the first 45 minutes. Maybe the style is not your thing. Maybe you don't like the narrator's voice. Maybe the quality of the writing drops severely after chapter three. Go ahead, if the product is bad, return it.

What I'm talking about is that no one should be able to listen to a ten-hour audiobook or read through nearly an entire novel and still get a refund.

Most of the readers don't know who's paying for this business plan. It's not Amazon and Audible, they're still keeping your subscription money. It's the authors.

First and Last words of PJO/HOO

First and Last words of PJO/HOO

Me: *turns page and sees Acknowledgments*

Mare: thanks, it was 50% off

Cal: I’d like it 100% off

Mare: the store can’t just give out free stuff

Cal: that’s not what I—

Farley: Of course. *leaves*

Cal, leaning over Mare's coffin: Now listen, I know you're not dead.

Cal: Yes, I do.

Bree: Would you take a bullet for her?

Cal: Yes.

Evangeline:

Kilorn: being louder doesn’t make you right

Mare: it makes me not hear him being wrong