I was experimenting with the idea that a Product Guide for a book of the Bible could perhaps do more than simply list commentaries; it could also help find monographs and articles. You can see the result here:
http://www.logos.com/job
A little while back I made a Product Guide for resources related to Judaism:
http://www.logos.com/Judaica
this content would be good in the Logos Reading Lists.
That was my initial response as well.
However, I'd like to complain that when I wanted to find Shai Cherry's book on Logos - neither the search nor the Judaica page was any help[:(] Not your fault, of course, just an example of the problems.
Awesome, Vincent! Keep it up. Do Product Guides for all the books of the Bible like that! [:)]
Yes, though Reading Lists aren't a very good place to list articles from things still on Prepub - something I wanted to do to help generate interest in some of the essay collections and focused academic literature. As we ponder easier ways of making/maintaining lists like this, we can think about tying the entries to article IDs for the purposes of generating Reading Lists. An alternative approach would be to include far more meta-data at the article level for generating Reading List and/or Passage Guide fodder automatically from the resources.
However, I'd like to complain that when I wanted to find Shai Cherry's book on Logos - neither the search nor the Judaica page was any help
Yes, I'm aware that not all text in product descriptions is being indexed. I imagine this selectivity is an attempt to generate higher quality search results, but clearly authors and titles of books within collections need to be indexed. I'd tried to keep the text in my Product Guides to a minimum (not that you can tell by looking at them) to make them easier to scan through with the idea that you can click on the product links to get more complete bibliographic information.
I think this is a fantastic step in the right direction. I know that publishers like to sell by the series, but most of us paying customers are interested in a particular area of study like these. A couple more things that I think would enrich the experience and increase the value to Logos:
1. Add the ability to "rate" content for people who own it
2. Show people what they own (checked box in front of resource?) and what they don't
3. For each section add a "add what I don't own to my cart" link, or maybe put a check box in front of resources and then "Add checked to Cart". . . along the same lines, maybe doing specials along packages like these (Trust me, I know this is publisher/product db version of hell), or at least a section?
4. Where there are multiple resources in the same section, put that resource as a hyperlinked header (e.g. Northwest Semitic Collection (7 Vols.)) This demonstrates the value a particular package brings to to the area of study.
I realize from a product management perspective, these are "Product Guides", but from a consumer perspective they're really guides focused on an area of study like the book of the bible, a historical period, etc... I never knew about the Judaica guide and purchased those resources from another vendor because locating the resources on the Logos website was too painful.
If you do nothing I suggest but just keep plugging away at your guides, I think it's a big step in the right direction!
this content would be good in the Logos Reading Lists. Yes, though Reading Lists aren't a very good place to list articles from things still on Prepub - something I wanted to do to help generate interest in some of the essay collections and focused academic literature.
Yes, though Reading Lists aren't a very good place to list articles from things still on Prepub - something I wanted to do to help generate interest in some of the essay collections and focused academic literature.
As we ponder easier ways of making/maintaining lists like this, we can think about tying the entries to article IDs for the purposes of generating Reading Lists. An alternative approach would be to include far more meta-data at the article level for generating Reading List and/or Passage Guide fodder automatically from the resources.
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