March madness sales are sorely lacking!
Dear Logos,
I'm grateful for you and also realize that I am not entitled to any discounts.
With that said, I feel a little misled with this sale. With other authors, many of their books are on sale but with this last round (50%) only 5 resources total? What about Moo's Galatians, etc?
I'm guessing this is a publisher issue but seems off.
Thank you for hearing me out.
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I too was a bit disappointed in the last round. I expected to see more.
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Sam Choi said:
with this last round (50%) only 5 resources total? What about Moo's Galatians, etc?
Sam:
while I share your general impression, it's 15 titles total in Round 5 (Faithlife thankfully put the unlocked=no parameter in the link to filter out books you already own).
Mick
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I think Faithlife should include ahead of time what resources for each author would be subject to being discounted. This might impact ones voting if we knew ahead of time how deep or shallow the list of discounted resources would be for each author.
It's like wining a day with an author and finding out that you can't discuss a bunch of topics that are off limits because of 'rules' that weren't spelled out completely. You might of decided to invest time with a different author if you had full disclosure.
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Very disappointing options for the fifth round.
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Bruce Roth said:
I think Faithlife should include ahead of time what resources for each author would be subject to being discounted.
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Bruce Roth said:
I think Faithlife should include ahead of time what resources for each author would be subject to being discounted. This might impact ones voting if we knew ahead of time how deep or shallow the list of discounted resources would be for each author.
It's like wining a day with an author and finding out that you can't discuss a bunch of topics that are off limits because of 'rules' that weren't spelled out completely. You might of decided to invest time with a different author if you had full disclosure.
I would make the educated guess that the books which are on sale depend on the level. So there are books they will offer at 30% off, but not 75% off, so they will not disclose in advance.
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I find it interesting that there is no comment from Logos/Faithlife on any of the criticisms of MM.
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I too was voting Moo because I wanted the Galatians commentsry - until I realised Baker and Zondervan weren't including the commentaries I wanted.
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Bruce Roth said:
I think Faithlife should include ahead of time what resources for each author would be subject to being discounted. This might impact ones voting if we knew ahead of time how deep or shallow the list of discounted resources would be for each author.
They should also take this into consideration in deciding on which authors to include in the promotion. I would prefer that they simply not include any authors who do not have a significant number of works they can discount.
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Everett Headley said:
I find it interesting that there is no comment from Logos/Faithlife on any of the criticisms of MM.
We are constantly reading your feedback and definitely are taking it into consideration for the years to come. We want you to enjoy Logos March Madness and have as much fun with it as we do! Please continue to provide us with feedback, of course there are certain things we just can't do, but we take you as customers and your feedback very seriously.
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EastTN said:
They should also take this into consideration in deciding on which authors to include in the promotion. I would prefer that they simply not include any authors who do not have a significant number of works they can discount.
And if any one queries some omissions explain that their publishers choose not to give discounts. It is their right not to give discounts.
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Kaleb Cuevas said:Everett Headley said:
I find it interesting that there is no comment from Logos/Faithlife on any of the criticisms of MM.
We are constantly reading your feedback and definitely are taking it into consideration for the years to come. We want you to enjoy Logos March Madness and have as much fun with it as we do! Please continue to provide us with feedback, of course there are certain things we just can't do, but we take you as customers and your feedback very seriously.
Great! Then, please, some of us would love to see
1. MM organised by "categories" such that the four initial divisions could be, for example, a contest between Catholic, Anglican/Lutheran/Methodist, Orthodox and Reformed/Evangelical/Pentecostal. Even if a Reformed/Evangelical/Pentecostal person ended up winning the contest, we'd see greater discounts on others authors because they'd be competing against somebody within their own category (at least until the semi-finals were reached).2. A greater diversity of authors, such that anybody with over, say 10 publications in Logos might be allowed to feature, as opposed to just doing a sweep of the "most searched" names from the previous year. I'd like to see more women and non-white folk featured, but accept that there would need to be more female and non-white authors added to Logos in the first place, so this may take some time.
3. An advanced list of which publications from each author would be available for discount.
4. A discount on sets and not individual books because in some cases, the MM discount on individual books has just made only a dollar or two difference from buy the non-discounted sets.
5. A new "May Madness" contest to be organised not by denomination, but by historical setting, such that there'd be four divisions, something like Patristics, Medieval, (Counter)-Reformation and Modern. Again, even if a modern author were to win the contest, the patristic authors would stand a greater chance of reaching the semi-finals before begining knocked out.
6. A March Madness contest especially designed for Verbum owners eg. www.verbummarchmadness.com such that the authors would all be people that Verbum owners would consider purchasing.
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I see this every year as a sales gimmick and try not to let it bother me if some of the resources I think I might want or need do not get discounted. I do hope to find something in the final round. The whole process and sale has been mysterious to me and I found in many "races" I was not even given an option to vote I think. I just chuckled and moved on. I read a MOO book for one of my classes and appreciated his scholarship. Carson is someone I am coming to appreciate more and more for his preaching style and effective communicator of The Word.
Blessings everyone. Every perfect gift comes from above....Thank God that we are deemed worthy to receive anything. Logos gives us some free books and if i find time to read them - I am sure they will be a blessing to me and I will rejoice.
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JohnB said:
And if any one queries some omissions explain that their publishers choose not to give discounts. It is their right not to give discounts.
Agreed. None of these sales, promotions or giveaways are mandatory. My comment was purely intended as a suggestion - not as a complaint.
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I wonder how much more motivating MM would be if we knew ahead what potential books would be discounted?
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Omitting the previous year's winner and runner-up may be an option you want to consider.
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For those who keep suggesting that the winner from the previous year be disqualified, you are forgetting two very vital things.
First, new users. If Faithlife was a static universe with no new purchasers, over time people would get all the deals they wanted and there would be no need to discount those authors. You may have had a chance to purchase Carson at 75% before, but how many others like myself, a new user, have not. (For context, I am not a Carson "groupie." I have never read anything he wrote.)
Second, you are asking Faithlife to not provide a discount on one or two of their most profitable authors. That just doesn't make good business sense. In the end, this is all about revenue, and a business would be foolish to throw out a winning strategy just because a few vocal forum members are not satisfied.
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I wished March Madness would've been like..
Commentaries VS:
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Dictionary VS:
New International Dictionary: Old and New Testament (9 vols.) vs. Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (3 vols.)
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Bundles VS:
Zondervan Bible Reference Bundle (87 vols.) vs. Baker Academic Biblical Studies Bundle (85 vols.) vs. Eerdmans Bible Reference Bundle (309 vols.)
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Messianic VS:
Ariel Ministries Messianic Collection (11 vols.) vs. Messianic Jewish Publishers Collection (22 vols.)
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Pauline VS:
Pauline Studies Library (35 vols.) vs. Fortress Press Pauline Studies Bundle (31 vols.)
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THIS WOULD BE THE REAL march madness
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Real March Madness in more than one way ... I would have purchased nothing if the sale consisted of set and bundles ... while I was willing to buy about 1 book per round when there was a variety of inexpensive options.
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MJ. Smith said:
Real March Madness in more than one way ... I would have purchased nothing if the sale consisted of set and bundles ... while I was willing to buy about 1 book per round when there was a variety of inexpensive options.
[Y] Absolutely. Same here.
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Gao Lu said:
I wonder how much more motivating MM would be if we knew ahead what potential books would be discounted?
I think it would be motivating if there was a good selection.
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David Ruley said:
First, new users. If Faithlife was a static universe with no new purchasers, over time people would get all the deals they wanted and there would be no need to discount those authors. You may have had a chance to purchase Carson at 75% before, but how many others like myself, a new user, have not. (For context, I am not a Carson "groupie." I have never read anything he wrote.)
Very good point! I have come to the conclusion that MM is really for new users. As the discounts get higher the books I don't already own get fewer and fewer. This last round I already owned all the Moo and Morse books. There are a few Carson and Packer books I don't own, but who knows if they will be included. Is this something to complain about? Hardly! God as blessed me with these books. Why should I complain that I already own them?
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Again, Packer is great, but only a few of his books were available.
I don't understand?
Again, we are not entitled to discounts, but for those who were strategically voting, I think we misread since there was a lack of consistency.
Finally, perhaps a Marchmadness with commentary sets would be exciting as others have mentioned.
Thanks for considering!
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