Shared Family Resources

Patrick Fleischmann
Patrick Fleischmann Member Posts: 64
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

A few years ago I spoke with a Logos manager in the Phoenix office and asked that Faithlife consider some sort of Apple iTunes-ish model so that people in the same family could share resources the same way they can share applications on multiple iPhones and iPads.  Or that they can share physical books.

I see where this could possibly dent their earnings if a husband and wife are both in ministry but, particularly in the Verbum space, I would think the chances of that are less than in the Protestant collections.

There are a number of books I'd love to buy in Verbum but have avoided doing so because my wife wanted them as well and therefore we bought a physical copy.  We share those, and it just makes those volumes a little less useful to me, but not so much so that I want to buy them again in a different format.   Most digital rights allow some sort of sharing or even concurrent use with limitations.  I think Faithlife is missing sales from me and others with their overly rigid single user model.  It's sad when an old school format like ink on dead trees is more useful than a modern electronic edition, at least in the key aspect of share-ability.