Vyrso's new market ? Cosmo Answers 200 Naughty Sex Questions
This is what happens when you run an international business as a hobby.... you end up with "cheap" titles in your catalouge
https://vyrso.com/product/121730/200-questions-about-sex-answered-in-20-words-or-less
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Sad [:(]
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Cash flow problems? Fix with L7 instead.
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Maybe that's a test run for including secular books in Vyrso, which was discussed I think last year.
Interestingly, that's the only title included from Cosmo Books. I reckon the logic which titles to filter out is inverse by error.
(I'm tempted to buy this just to receive an apology later on.
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Giving FL the benefit of the doubt, I suspect this was an oversight in their Vyrso book filtering system.
If Dracula was removed from Noet by popular demand, I'm doubtful this was an intentional addition! [:)]
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Paul-C said:
Giving FL the benefit of the doubt, I suspect this was an oversight in their Vyrso book filtering system.
IIRC the process of creating a Vyrso book is almost entirely automatic--probably a wrong book got pushed from a wronger publisher or something. I'd certainly give them the benefit of several doubts on this one.
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This has to be an error or oversight, but boy, what a BIG ERROR!
Am sure people have already bought this one!!!!!!
This needs to be IMMEDIATELY removed!
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Maybe the Song of Solomon once made it into the canon through a similar incident...
Doc, I'm curious, which search term did you use to come across this title?
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Thanks. I've passed this along and we'll work on getting it pulled.
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Thanks Kyle G. Anderson
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We'll look into how that happened.
My guess...
We're working with the major secular publishers to offer whatever books we want from their catalog at https://ebooks.noet.com/ (A few publishers are there already, and others should follow.)
This will allow us to offer the titles that our customers have asked for, as well as to offer a broader range of books for use in the Christian colleges and seminaries that are standardizing on Logos as an ebook platform. (Many courses at Christian schools require books that aren't specifically from a Christian publisher.)
This is based on the same technology stack as Vyrso, and while we intend to keep the catalogs separate, something must have leaked through here.
The good news is that while the automated publishing feeds (that go to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and all the digital booksellers) will send us publishers' entire catalogs, we will filter out inappropriate content. Because of the volume, this will start by category, and occasionally something may slip through that doesn't have accurate metadata, but we'll try to be responsive and as careful as possible.
Clearly we messed up in this case, though -- we're sorry about that and will address both this title and the underlying cause ASAP.
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Thanks Bob!
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Bob Pritchett said:
This will allow us to offer the titles that our customers have asked for, as well as to offer a broader range of books for use in the Christian colleges and seminaries that are standardizing on Logos as an ebook platform.
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Bob Pritchett said:
We're working with the major secular publishers to offer whatever books we want from their catalog at https://ebooks.noet.com/ (A few publishers are there already, and others should follow.
That's good news. If your prices are right, that will reduce my Kindle spending.
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Bob Pritchett said:
We're working with the major secular publishers to offer whatever books we want from their catalog at https://ebooks.noet.com/ (A few publishers are there already, and others should follow.)
Bob, I would be interested in having these results show up in the main Logos website, by checking a box (off by default) when searching for a title or a subject.
Mission: To serve God as He desires.
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I was just looking at all books sorted by lowest to high price and filtered for locked books only to display.
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Bob Pritchett said:
We'll look into how that happened.
Thanks Bob for replying, I have no doubt this was a process error on some level and know you would never intend to include this in your active list of titles.
Bob Pritchett said:We're working with the major secular publishers to offer whatever books we want from their catalog at https://ebooks.noet.com/ (A few publishers are there already, and others should follow.)
This is a good thing. This is something that you talked about doing with the LDLS in the Libronix days so it is good to see this finally getting off the ground.
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I think I've found a bug in the pricing:
https://ebooks.noet.com/products/75517/gene-roddenberrys-star-trek
Is that supposed to cost 75 bucks, or rather $7.50?
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Jan Krohn said:
I think I've found a bug in the pricing:
https://ebooks.noet.com/products/75517/gene-roddenberrys-star-trek
Is that supposed to cost 75 bucks, or rather $7.50?
The prices are set automatically by the publisher; looks likes this matches the hardcover price: https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Roddenberrys-Star-Trek-Adventures/dp/1442249870/
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Whoa, that's very steep for a pure entertainment book of that size. I think I'll invest that money somewhere else.
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Jan Krohn said:
I think I've found a bug in the pricing:
https://ebooks.noet.com/products/75517/gene-roddenberrys-star-trek
Is that supposed to cost 75 bucks, or rather $7.50?
The prices are set automatically by the publisher; looks likes this matches the hardcover price: https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Roddenberrys-Star-Trek-Adventures/dp/1442249870/
but the kindle price is $44. A tad lower.
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Bob Pritchett said:
We're working with the major secular publishers to offer whatever books we want from their catalog at https://ebooks.noet.com/ (A few publishers are there already, and others should follow.)
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But who is tagging these books for the website, you or the publishers? Because whoever is doing it sure could use a lesson in European geography. Look under History>Europe. Czechoslovakia in Scandinavia?? Kosovo in the Baltics?? Poland an ex-Soviet republic?? Turkey in Eastern Europe??
Some Eastern European ex-Soviet republics show up under Former Soviet Republics, some show up under Eastern Europe. Few, if any, show up under both. And the ones that should also be under Baltic States aren't.
And why Sweden, Finland and Iceland are under General instead of Scandinavia is beyond me. OK, Finland and Iceland aren't technically part of Scandinavia, though English speakers usually call them that anyway (Nordic Countries (or Northern Europe) would be more correct), but Sweden certainly is. And whatever you call them they should be grouped together.
If we can't find the books, we're not going to buy them...
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Kenneth Neighoff said:Jan Krohn said:
I think I've found a bug in the pricing:
https://ebooks.noet.com/products/75517/gene-roddenberrys-star-trek
Is that supposed to cost 75 bucks, or rather $7.50?
The prices are set automatically by the publisher; looks likes this matches the hardcover price: https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Roddenberrys-Star-Trek-Adventures/dp/1442249870/
but the kindle price is $44. A tad lower.
Too late, I invested that money elsewhere now. I got all seven Deep Space Nine DVD season boxes for less than $75. Much better value for money. [:D] (And probably a much bigger time waster...)
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Good move Jan Krohn
You were smart!
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fgh said:
But who is tagging these books for the website, you or the publishers? Because whoever is doing it sure could use a lesson in European geography. Look under History>Europe. Czechoslovakia in Scandinavia?? Kosovo in the Baltics?? Poland an ex-Soviet republic?? Turkey in Eastern Europe??
Some Eastern European ex-Soviet republics show up under Former Soviet Republics, some show up under Eastern Europe. Few, if any, show up under both. And the ones that should also be under Baltic States aren't.
And why Sweden, Finland and Iceland are under General instead of Scandinavia is beyond me. OK, Finland and Iceland aren't technically part of Scandinavia, though English speakers usually call them that anyway (Nordic Countries (or Northern Europe) would be more correct), but Sweden certainly is. And whatever you call them they should be grouped together.
If we can't find the books, we're not going to buy them...
The metadata comes straight from the publishers' ONIX feeds, which is their delivery mechanism for all ebook distributors.
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Jan Krohn said:Kenneth Neighoff said:Jan Krohn said:I think I've found a bug in the pricing:
https://ebooks.noet.com/products/75517/gene-roddenberrys-star-trek
Is that supposed to cost 75 bucks, or rather $7.50?
The prices are set automatically by the publisher; looks likes this matches the hardcover price: https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Roddenberrys-Star-Trek-Adventures/dp/1442249870/
but the kindle price is $44. A tad lower.
Too late, I invested that money elsewhere now. I got all seven Deep Space Nine DVD season boxes for less than $75. Much better value for money.
(And probably a much bigger time waster...)0
