Resource Buying/Selling/Gifting

Isaac Stanley

Logos really should add the ability (and perhaps a central marketplace) to buy, sell, or give your resources to other users. Perhaps even a system whereby clicking a button in a resource menu would generate a unique URL that would transfer a resource from one user to another.
Such a functionality could create a vibrate marketplace of resources, strengthen the reality that owners have power over their purchases, and move books that are languishing on our digital shelves to users that may find them more useful.

Isaac Stanley

Implementation ideas:
1) Perhaps Logos would offer a dedicated tab on their website to buy, sell, or give resources. This would have the advantage of being centralized and having search options to find specific resources. However, it would directly compete with the sale of regularly priced resources on logos.com
2) As mentioned in the OP, maybe Logos could offer unique, single-use URLs to resources that would verify at the beginning and end of the transfer (Are you sure you want to create this URL and remove this resource from your library? By clicking this link are you sure you want to receive this resource and add it to your library?). These URLs could then be transferred at will in person or online. The marketplace would then be existing personal relationships or unofficial groups on social media such as facebook groups. They could be free or for sale with paypal or venmo (or whatever the parties agree too). This has the advantage of MASSIVE freedom on the part of Logos users and doesn't require Faithlife to manage a marketplace.