Authors and readers want to change the policy Reah Foxx, a book lover from Louisiana, started a petition to change the policy after seeing "life hacks" circulating on social media that teach readers to abuse the Amazon return policy and read for free. To date, the petition has garnered almost 70,000 signatures. Kessler said prior to the "read and return" trend, she would normally have one or two b
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