Subscription resources for Logos and Verbum
As I stated elsewhere, the collection of books available for Logos and Verbum subscriptions seem imbalanced.
My suggestion is to rethink that part of the subscription (and may help on libraries as well):
- separate the 'academic', research part of the collections (that is probably more 'common' to Logos or Verbum users), from the 'pastoral', more denominational part. Make the 'academic' available for both subscriptions in general.
- maybe prepare a basic selection and 2 options: a default choice setting, where the person gets a pre-selected collection; and a 'custom'. The custom option would make a number of resources (from both subscriptions) available to choose from each category. For example: Verbum has 33 resources on the "Greek grammars, tools etc" category. While Logos subscription has only 17 on the same category. One could have a 'default' collection, but on the 'custom' category you could get 10 resources, and choose the other 10, 20.
- That could open up the possibilities for a kind of 'flexible' subscription. For example: you pay for the regular 12,99 Max Subscription (my case), and fill your custom collection. Say you still want some resources available from the other subscription pool. You could add those as 'rental' for a dollar or two more for a month or as long as you keep them, since they are already separated for subscriptions.
- What makes absolutely NO sense is looking at both subscriptions (Logos and Verbum) and considering pay for both. They have the same 'base collection'. There should be some customizing options first, and then some leverage for getting resources from both at a fair price.
Again, having room for 'custom options' on collections could work for libraries too, but that's for another day.