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Agreed!
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Indeed, BRI Collection Part 2 (511 docs.) was cancelled because it was not attracting sufficient pre-pub orders to meet new marketing standards. I was able to salvage part of it in BRI Perplexing Scriptures Explained . Here's the real problem: most SDA pre-pubs have never sold well, despite weekly promotion. Cutbacks have now severely affected our ability
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Agreed, Reimar, and I grieve with you.
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Yes, unfortunately Andrews Study Bible Notes will no longer be in any SDA base packages. This saddens us at Faithlife (as well as our friends at AUPress)--our business plan didn't work anymore. But you can still get ASBN as a standalone purchase.
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Thanks, Lynden.
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Great to see you branching out into Proclaim, Lynden. SoundFaith will record your sermons and archive them for subsequent outreach.
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Also, regarding the SDA Commentary: I'm hearing that none of the EGW Comments are hyperlinked to their original source: Did you all previously have that linkage? If so, are you finding that it doesn't link anymore?
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Thanks for the alert, Lynden. I've just heard from someone that this update has taken away the volume number reference with its pagination. Anyone else experiencing that? If so I'll try to arrange a fix asap.
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I understand and share your disappointment with this situation, David. The acquisitions process has changed as I've described, and I'm doing my best to serve you all within the new constraints.
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All these books are worthy of publication in Logos, but it's been difficult to get SDA items through pre-pub. And now I must present a compelling business plan for all new pre-pubs, that they will be responsibly profitable. It's hard to make that argument based upon past performance of SDA pre-pubs. We've had much more success selling base packages
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Adventist authors and publishers (here and internationally) do publish their own ebooks, which they obviously are eager to market in their own channels. It's easy to view Logos as a competitor more than a collaborator. And if Logos royalties are not up to expectations, authors/publishers are even less eager to work with us. The whole situation is extremely
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Indeed. Regarding Vyrso--I checked and (at the current time at least) the company remains committed to maintaining the high standard of completely interlinked resources within the Logos "ecosystem." This obviously minimizes the bundling of Vyrso products into promotions intended for the Logos library.
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ML Smith certainly has important things to say that always get my attention--even when there's nothing I can do directly about them.
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What you are describing is something that's technically and I think logically doable. But it represents a diversion from the concept of a Logos ecosystem in which everything is interlinked. The Vyrso books would obviously not be in that tagged format--and yet they would be at least readable and minimally searchable. The traditional process for adding
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You are welcome!
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Logos SDA is moving forward, for example we have a contract with ATS on Perspective Digest archives. But there are new protocols for getting contracts, since so many pre-pubs had to be cancelled for lack of support--not just SDA but across the board. Basically I need to come up with a business plan that plausibly predicts success before a contract is
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German PM Thomas just responded: " Thanks for the heads up. I know Ilian very well, and we can definitely start looking into it…"
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I'll pass these suggestions along to the Foreign Language products manager, who is in charge of German products (and is himself a German). He is engaged with the German SDA community--academic as well as administration, in consultation with me. I'm hopeful about what he will accomplish for our German SDA community.
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Thanks, John. I just heard this morning from the chairman of ATS, and he has asked the president to have this taken care of for us.
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I couldn't find it either in my library. Obviously it's missing--either in what came to us from JATS or lost in our processing. I'll work on that. Sorry, and thanks.