I but a lot of eBooks via Amazon.com. According to their website in the last six months I have bought 92 items, only a few of which were not books (they lump books and music downloads together). And much to my surprise I found a bit of a quirk.
When I buy a book, it is almost never for immediate consumption. I am currently reading a dozen or so books and the ones I buy get queued for later. For example, I recently bought Richard Rorty’s “Consequences of Pragmatism.” But when I opened the book, all of the pages were sideways and not aligned with my iPad screen. When I opened the book in the Kindle app on my computer, the pages were indeed sideways and duplex, that is two pages at a time. I could get two pages on screen, but the lines of type were vertical, not horizontal.
So, I went back to Amazon to see if I could get my $9.99 refunded, but no, I couldn’t because my “Return Privileges” ended after 7 days. That’s right, you have seven days to return a digital order to Amazon if it is defective and then you are SOL.
Now Amazon keeps records I can view on their website going back to the last century. Is there any reason for this “policy”? Do their records disappear? Are they stored on a remote cloud so remote that takes mountaineers and Sherpas to recover? No reason that I can see makes any sense other than their lawyers trying to limit their risk and bean counters trying to close the books on you purchases. And it conflicts with my policy of being able to return defective merchandise when it is received.
So, now when I buy a book from Amazon, I will have to download it. Check it from cover to cover to make sure it is not damaged, so that I can invoke my “Return Privilege” if necessary. This is definitely not one of the advantages of a paperless society.
Shame, What’s That?
Tags: class warfare, Corporate Greed, corruption, Fox (sic) News, liars, No Shame Fox, Pants on Fire Liars, Republicans
Fox (sic) News, caught red-handed lying about Donald Trump’s Big Lie (The election was stolen, the election was stolen!), apparently has been skillfully editing the footage from the Capitol’s security cameras provided it by Speaker McCarthy (indicating a New McCarthyism?) showing the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. capitol to be just a few tourists getting rambunctious.
When asked if they had no shame about continuing their program of lies, Fox (sic) News leaders said, “Shame, what’s that?”