Thoughts and Musings on the New Libraries

TheChosenOne
TheChosenOne Member Posts: 5 ✭
edited January 15 in English Forum
  1. Logos seems to be transitioning to a yearly library release. This increases the frequency which libraries are compiled to be published.
  2. The pace of Libraries released will be faster than getting the resources in the ecosystem, plus resources are not published at that speed (Commentary series release 1-3 books per year). With this, the libraries will always include duplicate resources. In the long run, this means that the library quality "drops".
  3. Those with large amount of resources already will perceive this "quality drop" even more due to the lack of new resources in the ecosystem. In the long run, this might become an issue for Faithlife.
  4. As some others have pointed out, Logos needs to strike deals with other publishers to include their books in the libraries. I suspect that given the post-pandemic era, publishers will be even more reluctant to allow Faithlife to include books in the packages since it does affect the publishers profit margin.
  5. I was interested in the New Beacon Bible Commentary series to appear in one of the Libraries at least… But i'm sad that it did not: https://www.logos.com/product/148374/new-beacon-bible-commentary-nbbc . As a free-will theist, I would like to see more resources that caters to that kind of theological viewpoint.
  6. The new kind of library (Researcher, leader and preacher) but the lack of denom library variation (eg: eastern rite and etc) is a one step forward and one step back. I would like to see some other variation of denom libraries (Or target audience): Those from the theologically liberal tradition, and even some from the post-liberal theological tradition. A package for a none-denom packages, perhaps one for different global context (Think asia, africa). Again, I don't necessarily need to agree with the POV of the tradition.
    With this, the overlooked resources that cannot be included in the normal base library can be heavily discounted in a niche library.

Anybody else has any thoughts or feedback on the new libraries? Or even those who agree or disagree with me.

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