Logic behind this makes no sense to me!
I need someone to please explain why a book like this (Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness) gets the full Logos treatment, but one like this (The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics) does not? The latter is not even a reader's edition.
Cliff
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I'm not even sure why the first book would be offered in the catalog in the first place. Seems like a mistake, totally off topic. It's a reader edition, with which the tagging is more automated, so maybe they just missed it. I doubt someone would have gone through the trouble of manually tagging it.
The second book is an ebook because Logos doesn't seem to have a great relationship with Abingdon Press. A lot of great bible/theology/ministry-related books are published by Abingdon (one of my favorite publishers), but Logos carries the vast majority of them as ebooks. I continue to fervently pray and plead that this will change in the future.
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Easy: cherry picking. It wouldn't surprise me if the former was required by a university, and Logos thus decided to give it a bit more attention. Logos does carry a variety of books that most would consider to be off topic, but the vast majority fall within typical expectations.
Note: As Critical Infrastructure is only a reader edition, it did not get the "full Logos treatment".
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I am fairly sure that ebooks are just the old name for reader's editions. They have not updated the language on all of the old product pages.
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Justin Gatlin said:
I am fairly sure that ebooks are just the old name for reader's editions. They have not updated the language on all of the old product pages.
That's actually not true. Ebooks are just that, ebooks that come in through the proverbial firehose from the publishers.
There are two types of Logos Editions: 1. Research Editions 2. Reader Editions
Reader Editions get some tagging but not the full treatment and allow Logos to release books closer to the time of general publication. Research Editions get the full treatment.
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Clifford B. Kvidahl said:
I need someone to please explain why a book like this (Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness) gets the full Logos treatment, but one like this (The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics) does not?
I will take a guess (but it is only a guess):
The first book looks like it would be a textbook. If that is the case, perhaps a school with which Logos has a contract needs it to be a "Logos Edition." The second book appears to be published by a company (Abingdon Press) which has few "Logos edition" resources. This would indicate to me that they don't want to make those kind of contracts with Logos.
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