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The screenshot mentions a 14 day return policy. If that doesn’t work, your credit card company is likely willing to help you force a refund (unless you agreed t
by thephyber 1y ago
The screenshot mentions a 14 day return policy. If that doesn’t work, your credit card company is likely willing to help you force a refund (unless you agreed to a contract during checkout).
The dead tree version is about a dollar more than the silly lease-under-onerous-terms-pretending-to-be-purchase version. Do the world a favor and opt for the physical book so you don’t contribute to the anti-consumer digital distribution company.
- Daviey 1y agoI won't use printed academic books, ctrl+f and inline links are far too useful in ebooks.
- DanAtC 1y agoThen buy the physical to support the ~authors~ publishers and pirate a DRM-free ebook.
- Daviey 1y agoThat seems the worst of options, because the I'd have a useless shelf of dead wood that only serves as a backdrop to make me look smart on zoom calls.
- xboxnolifes 1y agoOk, then buy the DRM version and then pirate it.
- Daviey 1y agoThis, I can get behind.
- bandali 1y agoRegarding the 14 day return policy: > You must not have viewed or printed, in total, more than five percent (5%) of the e-book. -- from <https://global.oup.com/academic/help/ebooks/?cc=ca&lang=en&#returns-ebooks https://global.oup.com/academic/help/ebooks/?cc=ca&lang=en&#...> According to that I'm not covered because I tried to print more than that percentage of the book to PDF (and was presented with the kind of unusable garbage output shown in my post).
- DanAtC 1y agoChargeback that shiz