Amazon has a 7 day return policy on ebooks — they’ll refund your money, even if you’ve read the whole book. Every month I get approximately 2% of my sales returned. And you know what?

I’m fine with that.

I’m an indie author, a virtual unknown, and I really believe giving customers the opportunity to return ebooks increases my credibility and my sales in the long run.

There is a petition going around for Amazon to stop offering returns when a customer has read an entire book — I’m not signing it.

I don’t think it’s necessary, and think it will unfairly punish readers who accidentally scroll to the end of a book they hate.

I’m pretty sure Amazon will pursue people who are genuinely defrauding authors with all guns blazing; they have incentive not to see people return books they’ve read too. I very much doubt suddenly 50% or even 5% of my ebooks will be returned.